Nutrition Knowledge among College of Basic Education Students in Kuwait: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

A comparison of the internal reliability of the current study with the results of questionnaires developed in other studies.

Knowledge section (2) (max score for the current study)	Current study n = 597	UK sample [26] n = 168	UK sample [25] n = 266	Australian sample [31] n = 156	Turkish sample [32] n = 195	Romanian sample [33] n = 412
P1	0.64	0.70	0.70	0.53	0.47	0.53
P2	0.87	0.95	0.86	0.88	0.88	0.82
P3	0.63	0.76	0.72	0.43	0.43	0.53
P4	0.76	0.94	0.77	0.81	0.81	0.72
Total	0.91	0.97	0.93	0.92	0.89	0.88

P1: dietary recommendations, maximum score = 17; P2: sources of nutrients, maximum score = 36; P3: everyday healthy food choices, maximum score = 10; P4: diet-disease relationship, maximum score = 21. Total nutrition knowledge = 84.