Cargando…

Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings

Understanding the factors that influence an athletes’ food choice is important to supporting optimal dietary intake. The Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire (AFCQ) is a new validated tool for assisting practitioners and researchers to understand athlete eating behaviours. However, the AFCQ previously...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Thurecht, Rachael L., Pelly, Fiona E., Burkhart, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9407750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011616
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169981
_version_ 1784774439292895232
author Thurecht, Rachael L.
Pelly, Fiona E.
Burkhart, Sarah
author_facet Thurecht, Rachael L.
Pelly, Fiona E.
Burkhart, Sarah
author_sort Thurecht, Rachael L.
collection PubMed
description Understanding the factors that influence an athletes’ food choice is important to supporting optimal dietary intake. The Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire (AFCQ) is a new validated tool for assisting practitioners and researchers to understand athlete eating behaviours. However, the AFCQ previously has only been applied at international competition events. This observational study explored the online application of the AFCQ outside of the competition environment with detailed examination of factor reliability. The AFCQ factors include ‘nutritional attributes of the food’, ‘emotional influences’, ‘food and health awareness’, ‘influence of others’, ‘usual eating practices’, ‘weight control’, ‘food values and beliefs’, ‘sensory appeal’, and ‘performance’. A total of 131 athletes, representing 19 countries and 36 sports, participated using an online questionnaire. Reliability via Cronbach’s alpha (α) and item correlation scores were compared to those from previous competition events. Acceptable reliability was attained for seven of the nine factors (α ≥ 0.7, range 0.70–0.92). ‘Food values and beliefs’ and ‘usual eating practices’ (α = 0.60, 0.64) were tolerable and consistent against previous major competition samples, indicating that the setting is unlikely responsible for lower reliability scores. Three factors (‘emotional influence’; ‘nutritional attributes of the food’; ‘influence of others’) differed in reliability between the online sample compared to one or both major competition samples. The ‘religious food beliefs’ item within the ‘food values and beliefs’ factor may warrant removal due to recurrent low internal consistency. This study confirms the AFCQ’s reliability regardless of competition phase and supports use of the AFCQ for understanding the eating behaviours of athletes.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9407750
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-94077502022-08-26 Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings Thurecht, Rachael L. Pelly, Fiona E. Burkhart, Sarah Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Understanding the factors that influence an athletes’ food choice is important to supporting optimal dietary intake. The Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire (AFCQ) is a new validated tool for assisting practitioners and researchers to understand athlete eating behaviours. However, the AFCQ previously has only been applied at international competition events. This observational study explored the online application of the AFCQ outside of the competition environment with detailed examination of factor reliability. The AFCQ factors include ‘nutritional attributes of the food’, ‘emotional influences’, ‘food and health awareness’, ‘influence of others’, ‘usual eating practices’, ‘weight control’, ‘food values and beliefs’, ‘sensory appeal’, and ‘performance’. A total of 131 athletes, representing 19 countries and 36 sports, participated using an online questionnaire. Reliability via Cronbach’s alpha (α) and item correlation scores were compared to those from previous competition events. Acceptable reliability was attained for seven of the nine factors (α ≥ 0.7, range 0.70–0.92). ‘Food values and beliefs’ and ‘usual eating practices’ (α = 0.60, 0.64) were tolerable and consistent against previous major competition samples, indicating that the setting is unlikely responsible for lower reliability scores. Three factors (‘emotional influence’; ‘nutritional attributes of the food’; ‘influence of others’) differed in reliability between the online sample compared to one or both major competition samples. The ‘religious food beliefs’ item within the ‘food values and beliefs’ factor may warrant removal due to recurrent low internal consistency. This study confirms the AFCQ’s reliability regardless of competition phase and supports use of the AFCQ for understanding the eating behaviours of athletes. MDPI 2022-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9407750/ /pubmed/36011616 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169981 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Thurecht, Rachael L.
Pelly, Fiona E.
Burkhart, Sarah
Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings
title Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings
title_full Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings
title_fullStr Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings
title_full_unstemmed Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings
title_short Reliability of the Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire in Diverse Settings
title_sort reliability of the athlete food choice questionnaire in diverse settings
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9407750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011616
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169981
work_keys_str_mv AT thurechtrachaell reliabilityoftheathletefoodchoicequestionnaireindiversesettings
AT pellyfionae reliabilityoftheathletefoodchoicequestionnaireindiversesettings
AT burkhartsarah reliabilityoftheathletefoodchoicequestionnaireindiversesettings