TY - JOUR
T1 - The shortened food expectations - Long-term care questionnaire
T2 - Assessing nursing home residents' satisfaction with food and food service
AU - Crogan, Neva L.
AU - Evans, Bronwynne
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - Lack of nursing home resident satisfaction with meals often results in reduced food intake, leading to poor nutritional status, weight loss, functional decline, and depression. The purpose of this article is to describe the development and initial testing of the 28-item revised Food Expectations - Long-Term Care (FoodEx-LTC) questionnaire with a convenience sample of nursing home residents (N = 61). Because of possible respondent burden, the original 44-item, five-domain FoodEx-LTC was revised, resulting in the deletion of 16 redundant items and those with inter-item correlations less than .25. Coefficient alpha scores ranged from .65 to .82, and test-retest correlations ranged from .79 to .88, dependent on domain. This revised instrument has good initial validity and reliability, resulting in a shorter instrument that accurately assesses nursing home resident satisfaction with food and food service.
AB - Lack of nursing home resident satisfaction with meals often results in reduced food intake, leading to poor nutritional status, weight loss, functional decline, and depression. The purpose of this article is to describe the development and initial testing of the 28-item revised Food Expectations - Long-Term Care (FoodEx-LTC) questionnaire with a convenience sample of nursing home residents (N = 61). Because of possible respondent burden, the original 44-item, five-domain FoodEx-LTC was revised, resulting in the deletion of 16 redundant items and those with inter-item correlations less than .25. Coefficient alpha scores ranged from .65 to .82, and test-retest correlations ranged from .79 to .88, dependent on domain. This revised instrument has good initial validity and reliability, resulting in a shorter instrument that accurately assesses nursing home resident satisfaction with food and food service.
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U2 - 10.3928/00989134-20061101-08
DO - 10.3928/00989134-20061101-08
M3 - Article
C2 - 17112138
AN - SCOPUS:39049193402
SN - 0098-9134
VL - 32
SP - 50
EP - 59
JO - Journal of gerontological nursing
JF - Journal of gerontological nursing
IS - 11
ER -