Adherence to the Mediterranean diet in college students: evaluation of psychometric properties of the KIDMED questionnaire

Atencio Osorio, Miguel Alejandro; Carrillo Arango, Hugo Alejandro; Correa Rodríguez, María; Ochoa Muñoz, Andrés Felipe; Ramírez Vélez, Robinson

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Adherence to the Mediterranean diet in college students: evaluation of psychometric properties of the KIDMED questionnaire

dc.contributor.author	Atencio Osorio, Miguel Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Carrillo Arango, Hugo Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Correa Rodríguez, María
dc.contributor.author	Ochoa Muñoz, Andrés Felipe
dc.contributor.author	Ramírez Vélez, Robinson
dc.contributor.department	Ciencias de la Salud	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Osasun Zientziak	eu
dc.contributor.funder	Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa, ID 420/2019	es
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-16T08:49:01Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-16T08:49:01Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description	Incluye material complementario	es_ES
dc.description.abstract	No prior studies have examined the reliability properties of the 16-item Mediterranean Diet Quality Index (KIDMED) questionnaire among young adults from a non-Mediterranean country. The objective of this study was to determine the psychometric properties in terms of the reliability and validity of the KIDMED questionnaire in young adults from Colombia. A cross-sectional validation study was conducted among 604 Colombian college students (47.51% men and 52.48% women; mean age of 21.60 ± 2.02 years). Kappa statistics were used to assess the reliability of the KIDMED questionnaire. A categorical principal components analysis was used to determine validity. Based on the KIDMED score, 58.4% of students had a good adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet). Good agreement in the general score of the questionnaire was observed (κ = 0.727, 95% confidence interval = 0.676 to 0.778, p < 0.001). A five-factor model was identified which explained almost 51.38% of the variability, showing the multidimensionality of the questionnaire. In conclusion, this study provides reasonable evidence for the reliability and validity of the KIDMED questionnaire for assessing adherence to MedDiet in college students within a Latin American country. The evaluation of the psychometric properties of this tool in early adulthood and in a non-Mediterranean country will be useful in clinical practice and epidemiological research, since practitioners and health researchers now have a valid and reliable short scale.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	R.R.-V. is funded in part by a Postdoctoral Fellowship Resolution ID 420/2019 of the Universidad Pública de Navarra.	en
dc.format.extent	10 p.
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dc.identifier.doi	10.3390/nu12123897
dc.identifier.issn	2072-6643 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/39946
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	MDPI	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Nutrients, 2020, 12, 3897	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12123897
dc.rights	© 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.	en
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Latin-american	en
dc.subject	Mediterranean diet	en
dc.subject	Reliability	en
dc.subject	Validity	en
dc.title	Adherence to the Mediterranean diet in college students: evaluation of psychometric properties of the KIDMED questionnaire	en
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