The International Healthy Eating Report Card Scale (IHERCS), developed by researchers in Hong Kong, effectively assesses preschool children's eating behaviors and family home food environments across different cultures, demonstrating its utility in global health promotion efforts.
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.Mar 19 2024 Scientists at the Education University of Hong Kong, China, have developed a 43-item International Healthy Eating Report Card Scale to assess the eating behaviors and family home food environment of preschool children from different cultural backgrounds.Study: An assessment tool for the international healthy eating report card for preschool-aged children: a cross-cultural validation across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States.
However, widespread implementation of such region-specific Report Cards may face potential challenges because of dietary guidelines and recommendations vary across different geographical and cultural environments. Demographic questions were included in the questionnaire to collect participants' personal information. The IHERCS included 43 items to assess mealtime behaviors of children and family mealtime environments.
Related StoriesRegarding measurement invariance between cultural contexts, the findings indicated the establishment of full configural invariance and metric invariance across the four cultural contexts. However, full scaler invariance could not be achieved. Partial scalar invariance was found only in the scale of family home food environments.
The scale of children's eating behavior in the IHERCS is relatively shorter and easier than other validated assessment tools. This can potentially reduce participants' response burden and facilitate the implementation of IHERCS in large-scale studies.
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