Evaluation of Food Security Scales among Hispanic Parents: A Cognitive Interview and Psychometric Properties Study

西班牙裔父母粮食安全量表评估：认知访谈和心理测量特性研究

• 批准号: 10741938
• 负责人: Daphne C. Hernandez
• 金额: $ 16.9万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-10 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10741938
• 关键词: Address; Back; Child Health; Child Rearing; Development; Diet; Dimensions; Eating; Ensure; Evaluation; Exclusion; Face; Factor Analysis; Family; Feedback; Food; Goals; Health; Hispanic; Household; Hunger; Immigrant; Individual; Language; Limited English Proficiency; Linguistics; Literature; Measurement; Measures; Methodology; Methods; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Parents; Participant; Population; Process; Property; Psychometrics; Research; Resources; Risk; Severities; Stress; Structure; Surveys; Testing; Time; Translating; Translations; Uncertainty; United States National Institutes of Health; Validation; Violence; cognitive interview; cognitive testing; design; experience; field study; food insecurity; food quality; food security; improved; innovation; instrument; interest; literacy; nutrition; prevent; programs; psychologic; response; social; tool

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT A substantial segment of the 3.1 million Hispanic households that experience food insecurity (FI) consists of predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrant parents with low or limited English proficiency. Yet, this population has been excluded from survey development measuring FI. By excluding this population, we may not be capturing how this population conceptualizes FI. Survey design limitations and lack of methodological rigor have also prevented conceptual differences in food insecurity experiences from being measured in this dominant and highly vulnerable US population. Current scales were constructed using translated items. While there are methods to ensure accuracy of translated surveys, translations do not ensure participants understand survey items. Due to literacy limitations, Spanish-speaking immigrant parents with low or limited English proficiency may express their FI experiences differently from native English speakers. Consequently, the items on FI scales may be interpreted differently from what the items were intended to measure. In addition, the most common Spanish translated FI scale used in research (i.e. S-FSSM) is designed to capture a unidimensional experience of FI rather than the multidimensional aspects that are established in the literature. The proposal seeks to address these limitations by integrating how Spanish-speaking immigrant parents with low or limited English proficiency conceptualize their FI experiences through an iterative process that includes individual concurrent cognitive interviews (CI), group retrospective CI, and survey psychometric testing. The goal is to improve the clarity, cultural, and linguistic appropriateness of words in the S-FSSM. Subsequently, this may lead to a multi- dimensional scale that captures varied FI domains. Aim 1: Evaluate and adapt the current S-FSSM among Spanish-speaking parents. Parents will provide feedback on FI experiences and the current scales through individual concurrent CI (n=20) and group retrospective CI (n=20). The feedback will be used to revise the current scales. Aim 2: Field test the revised scales and assess psychometric properties. A new set of Hispanic parents (n=150) will complete the revised instruments. Exploratory factor analysis will examine structural validity. Internal consistency reliability will assess how well the revised survey is measuring food security domains and test-retest will assess stability over time. Convergent validity will be assessed via several outcome measures: parenting stress, violence, health, and diet. The current proposal aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration's and NIH's goal to end food and nutrition insecurity, and thus, significant. The use of a dominant population that is traditionally excluded in survey development to assist in the advancement of a multi-dimensional scale is innovative. The revised survey may assist in identifying additional Hispanic families who may benefit from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP participation has been associated with reducing FI and negative health outcomes, and related to positive child health outcomes.

项目摘要/摘要 经历粮食不安全（FI）的310万西班牙裔家庭中的大量部分包括 主要是说西班牙语的移民父母，英语水平低或有限。但是，这个人口 已被排除在调查开发测量中。通过排除这个人群，我们可能不会 捕获该人群如何概念化FI。调查设计局限性和缺乏严格的方法论 还阻止了粮食不安全经验的概念差异，以在这种主导性和 非常脆弱的美国人口。使用翻译项目构建当前量表。而有 确保翻译调查准确性的方法，翻译不能确保参与者了解调查 项目。由于识字限制，讲西班牙语的移民父母低或有限的英语能力可能 表达他们的FI经历与以英语为母语的人不同。因此，FI量表上的项目可能 与项目要测量的内容不同。此外，西班牙最常见的 研究中使用的翻译FI量表（即S-FSSM）旨在捕获一维的FI体验 而不是文献中建立的多维方面。该提议旨在解决 通过整合说西班牙语的移民父母低或有限的英语水平，这些限制 通过包括个人并发认知的迭代过程概念化他们的FI体验 访谈（CI），小组回顾性CI和调查心理测试测试。目标是提高清晰度， S-FSSM中单词的文化和语言适当性。随后，这可能导致多个 捕获多样化的FI域的维尺度。 AIM 1：评估并适应当前的S-FSSM 讲西班牙语的父母。父母将提供有关FI体验的反馈和当前量表 单个并发CI（n = 20）和组回顾性CI（n = 20）。反馈将用于修改当前 秤。目标2：现场测试修订的量表并评估心理测量特性。一组新的西班牙裔父母 （n = 150）将完成修订的仪器。探索性因素分析将检查结构有效性。内部的 一致性可靠性将评估修订的调查如何测量粮食安全域和重测 会随着时间的推移评估稳定性。收敛有效性将通过多种结果指标评估：育儿 压力，暴力，健康和饮食。当前的提案与拜登 - 哈里斯政府和NIH的提案保持一致 目的是结束食物和营养不安全，因此很重要。使用主要人口 传统上在调查开发中排除了以协助多维规模的进步是 创新的。修订的调查可能有助于确定可能从中受益的其他西班牙裔家庭 补充营养援助计划（SNAP）。 SNAP参与与减少FI有关 和负面的健康结果，并且与积极的儿童健康结果有关。