Sağlık Bilimlerinde Eğitim Dergisi

Yazarlar: Bircan ULAŞ KADIOĞLU

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Food literacy,Nutrition literacy,Literacy

Özet: The number of studies conducted on food and nutrition literacy is seen as a notable increase in recent years. The term “food literacy” describes the idea of proficiency in food related skills and knowledge. Food and nutrition literacy includes that individuals have proper knowledge, attitude and skills in matters such as food, nutrition, food selection, food consumption, healthy nutrition, food safety and safety, and make appropriate decisions and take appropriate actions in these matters. The aim of this study is to investigate the improved scale for determining the food and nutrition literacy in the whole community and in various risk groups. Through the internet access network of Firat University, PUBMED and Google Academic search engines were screened using food and nutrition, food literacy, nutrition literacy, scale keywords. Publications related to the subject were reviewed, and full-text articles containing scales on validity, reliability studies were evaluated within framework of the study. In the literature, there are scales for identifying food and nutrition literacy developed specifically for adults or children. There are scales for children or adults in various chronic diseases. Improved 8 different scales for detecting food and nutrition literacy were examined in this study. Food and nutrition literacy is increasingly used in recent researches. Though research in this area is growing, there is no accepted method to measure food and nutrition literacy in our country. This study may contribute to the development of different food and nutrition literacy scales in the future studies.

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