Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: June | Volume: 11 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 107-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20210615
Construction of Knowledge Questionnaire Regarding Junk Food Consumption
Suchandra Samanta Mondal1, Santosh Mukherjee2, Deb Prasad Sikdar3
1Assistant Professor, Krishnanagar B.Ed. College, Nadia, West Bengal, India
2Vice-Principal, Krishnanagar B.Ed. College, Nadia, West Bengal, India
3Professor, Department of Education, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India
Corresponding Author: Deb Prasad Sikdar
ABSTRACT
Aim: The present paper aims to discuss on the construction and validation of a survey tool for measuring knowledge of people of West Bengal regarding junk foods.
Method: Questionnaire was selected as the data collection tool. The questionnaire was prepared on the basis of certain dimensions and initially it had 41 items. At first, the questionnaire was administered to a target population of 30 respondents. After the pre-test among 30 respondents the readability, discrimination indices, and difficulty indices were determined for ‘Knowledge’ questionnaire. Rejection criteria were set for each parameter and the final questionnaire was constructed with the items retained after validation. The reliability of the tool was confirmed by Test-Retest method.
Result: Finally, the knowledge questionnaire retained 31 items. Reliability co-efficient was found to be 0.76090 which was significant.
Conclusion: Validity and reliability of the knowledge questionnaire were well established. There were 31 items in the final questionnaire depending on the rejection criterion. The high reliability of the questionnaire was found. This questionnaire will help to find out the level of knowledge of people regarding junk food and its effects on health.
Key words: Junk food, Food consumption, Knowledge.