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 在经历粮食不安全（FI）的310万西班牙裔家庭中， 主要是讲西班牙语的移民父母，英语水平低或有限。然而，这些人口 已被排除在测量FI的调查发展之外。如果排除这部分人， 捕捉这个群体如何概念化FI。调查设计的局限性和方法上的不严谨， 也阻碍了在这一占主导地位和 非常脆弱的美国人口。目前的比额表是使用翻译的项目编制的。虽然有 确保翻译调查准确性的方法，翻译不能确保参与者理解调查 项目.由于文化水平的限制，英语水平低或有限的西班牙语移民父母可能会 表达他们的FI经验不同于英语母语者。因此，FI量表上的项目可能 与项目的测量目的不同。最常见的西班牙语 研究中使用的翻译FI量表（即S-FSSM）旨在捕获FI的一维体验 而不是在文献中建立的多维方面。该提案旨在解决 这些限制，通过整合如何讲西班牙语的移民父母与低或有限的英语水平， 通过迭代过程概念化他们的FI体验，包括个人并发认知 访谈（CI），团体回顾性CI和调查心理测量测试。我们的目标是提高清晰度， S-FSSM中词语的文化和语言适当性。这可能会导致多... 三维尺度，捕捉不同的FI域。目标1：评估和调整目前的S-FSSM， 西班牙语父母家长将通过以下方式提供有关FI经验和当前量表的反馈： 个体同期CI（n=20）和组回顾性CI（n=20）。反馈将用于修改当前的 鳞片目的2：实地测试修订后的量表，并评估心理测量学特性。一对新的西班牙裔父母 （n=150）将完成修订后的工具。探索性因素分析将检验结构效度。内部 一致性可靠性将评估修订后的调查如何衡量粮食安全领域和重测 将评估长期稳定性。收敛效度将通过几个结果的措施进行评估： 压力、暴力、健康和饮食。目前的提案与Bethle-Harris政府和NIH的一致 这是结束粮食和营养不安全的目标，因此意义重大。使用一个占主导地位的人口， 传统上被排除在调查发展之外，以帮助推进多维规模， 新颖啊修订后的调查可能有助于确定更多的西班牙裔家庭谁可能受益于 补充营养援助计划（SNAP）。SNAP参与与减少FI相关 和消极的健康结果，并与积极的儿童健康结果有关。