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Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED)
Individuals’ perceptions of their food environments are a mediator between exposure to the environment and people’s interaction with it. The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) are valid and reliable measures to assess food environments. In Spain, there is no adapted instrument to measure...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7693738/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33114384 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113257 |
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author | Martínez-García, Alba Trescastro-López, Eva María Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia Llorens-Ivorra, Cristóbal Pereyra-Zamora, Pamela |
author_facet | Martínez-García, Alba Trescastro-López, Eva María Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia Llorens-Ivorra, Cristóbal Pereyra-Zamora, Pamela |
author_sort | Martínez-García, Alba |
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description | Individuals’ perceptions of their food environments are a mediator between exposure to the environment and people’s interaction with it. The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) are valid and reliable measures to assess food environments. In Spain, there is no adapted instrument to measure the perceived obesogenic environment. This article aims to adapt and evaluate the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for a Spanish context (NEMS-P-MED). The Spanish version has 32 questions to measure the perception about availability, accessibility and marketing of 3 types of environment: home, shops and restaurants. We assess feasibility, construct validity and internal consistency reliability through a sample of 95 individuals. The internal consistency was acceptable for most items (Cronbach’s alpha coefficients range from 0.6 to 0.9), similar to that of the original scale. The NEMS-P-MED has been shown to be valid and, on certain items reliable, and was useful to assess the population’s perceptions of the food environment in the home, restaurants and food stores in a Spanish context. Adapting standardized measurement tools to specific contexts to assess the perceived and observed characteristics of food environments may facilitate the development of effective policy interventions to reduce excess weight. |
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spelling | pubmed-76937382020-11-28 Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) Martínez-García, Alba Trescastro-López, Eva María Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia Llorens-Ivorra, Cristóbal Pereyra-Zamora, Pamela Nutrients Article Individuals’ perceptions of their food environments are a mediator between exposure to the environment and people’s interaction with it. The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) are valid and reliable measures to assess food environments. In Spain, there is no adapted instrument to measure the perceived obesogenic environment. This article aims to adapt and evaluate the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for a Spanish context (NEMS-P-MED). The Spanish version has 32 questions to measure the perception about availability, accessibility and marketing of 3 types of environment: home, shops and restaurants. We assess feasibility, construct validity and internal consistency reliability through a sample of 95 individuals. The internal consistency was acceptable for most items (Cronbach’s alpha coefficients range from 0.6 to 0.9), similar to that of the original scale. The NEMS-P-MED has been shown to be valid and, on certain items reliable, and was useful to assess the population’s perceptions of the food environment in the home, restaurants and food stores in a Spanish context. Adapting standardized measurement tools to specific contexts to assess the perceived and observed characteristics of food environments may facilitate the development of effective policy interventions to reduce excess weight. MDPI 2020-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7693738/ /pubmed/33114384 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113257 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Martínez-García, Alba Trescastro-López, Eva María Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia Llorens-Ivorra, Cristóbal Pereyra-Zamora, Pamela Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) |
title | Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) |
title_full | Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) |
title_fullStr | Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) |
title_short | Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) |
title_sort | cultural adaptation and evaluation of the perceived nutrition environment measures survey to the mediterranean spanish context (nems-p-med) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7693738/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33114384 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113257 |
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