SNEB Journal Club 2: Test-retest correlations; construct validity

presented by Patricia Markham Risica, DrPH, RD

Based on research from the JNEB article "Assessing Fat-related Dietary Behaviors among Black Women: Reliability and Validity of a New Food Habits Questionnaire"
http://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(07)00118-2/abstract

At the completion of the webinar participants will:
be able to describe the steps for demonstrating reliability of an instrument and one example based in nutrition assessment
be able to describe the steps for demonstrating validity of an instrument and one example based in nutrition assessment
be able to identify characteristics of construct validity and one example based in nutrition assessment

Patricia Markham Risica, DrPH, RD is a nutritional epidemiologist with the Institute for Community Health Promotion and Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. Early in her career, Dr. Risica served as a nutrition support dietitian for five years at University of Maryland Hospital before completing her MPH and DrPH at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her doctoral training included traveling to rural Alaska, where Dr. Risica collected dietary data house-to-house. Since that time, Dr. Risica and her team at Brown have created at tested community-based public health interventions. Dr. Risica specializes in data collection and assessment for evaluation of programs and interventions.