Feeding practices and structure questionnaire Turkish validity and reliability study

Objective: In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the validity reliability of the Feeding Practices and Structure Questionnaire in Turkish. Material and methods: In the study conducted with parents of preschool children aged 2-5 years; Feed Practices and Structure Questionnaire and demographic questionnaire forms were applied to 314 parents. BMI values were used for anthropometric features of parents. For children, Z score values were determined using the WHO Anthro Plus program. While evaluating the validity reliability of the questionnaire, the content validity, internal validity, external validity, Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient and test-retest reliability were examined. Item-person distinction and item-person mean square fit statistics were evaluated with Rasch analysis. Results: The content validity index of the questionnaire was found above 0.80 for all items. Cronbach's alpha coefficient is 0.74. In test-retest analysis, a significant difference was found for all items (p <0.01). According to the Rasch analysis, the person separation index was found to be 1.57 and the item separation index as 11.93. For this reason, it was determined that the data had very high item reliability (0.99), and the person's reliability (0.71) was quite low. In-compliance and non-compliance mean square statistics for each of the 27 items were among the expected values (0.60-1.40). Conclusion: This study showed that the Feeding Practices and Structure Questionnaire is reliable and not valid due to the sample Keywords: Feeding practices, preschool term, parents, validity, reliability.