Hygiena 2022, 67(3):107-113 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1817

Nutrition and food literacy assessment

Kamila Jančeková1, Martin Krobot1, Zlata Kapounová1, Veronika Spáčilová1, Eliška Selinger2, 3, Anna Ouřadová2, Jan Gojda2
1 Masarykova univerzita, Lékařská fakulta, Ústav veřejného zdraví, Brno, Česká republika
2 Univerzita Karlova, 3. lékařská fakulta a Fakultní nemocnice Královské Vinohrady, Interní klinika, Centrum pro výzkum výživy, diabetu a metabolismu, Praha, Česká republika
3 Státní zdravotní ústav, Centrum podpory veřejného zdraví, Praha, Česká republika

Measuring nutrition literacy should be an important tool to improve nutrition literacy and subsequently dietary behaviour at the population level, but also to identify individuals with limited nutrition literacy with the potential to define personalised interventions. In addition, a nutrition literacy assessment tool may allow standardisation of scientific outcomes of population-based nutritional behaviour intervention programmes. However, no such tool currently exists in the Czech Republic. This paper sum- marizes the existing tools for assessing nutrition or food literacy from abroad and introduces the intention to develop a suitable tool applicable to the Czech Republic.

Keywords: nutrition literacy, food literacy, health literacy, questionnaire

Received: April 2022; Accepted: July 19, 2022; Published: September 15, 2022  Show citation

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Jančeková K, Krobot M, Kapounová Z, Spáčilová V, Selinger E, Ouřadová A, Gojda J. Nutrition and food literacy assessment. Hygiena. 2022;67(3):107-113. doi: 10.21101/hygiena.a1817.
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