Guidelines for Assessing Nutrition-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices
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Having physical and economic access to food on their own are not sufficient to ensure that people are food secure and well nourished. It is essential that people understand what constitutes a healthy diet; in particular, what nutrition-related health issues affect their communities and how to address these through food-based approaches, and know how to make the best use of their resources. They should also have positive attitudes towards nutrition, diet, foods and closely related hygiene and health issues to be able to perform optimal dietary and feeding practices that ensure their nutritional wellbeing and that of their families. The Guidelines for assessing nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and practices is a reference guide and practical tool for conducting high-quality surveys of nutrition- and health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP ) at the community level. The manual is written for people in charge of planning, implementing and evaluating food security and nutrition projects; these include project managers, nutritionists, health workers, planning and evaluation specialists and many others.The manual includes definitions and key indicators for nutrition- and health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices. It provides useful guidance for planning and conducting a KAP survey, and for analysing and reporting the survey results. The manual also provides model questionnaires (modules). These can be used to facilitate thedesign of KAP survey questionnaires. Using them contributes to the standardization of KAPstudies and the comparability of their results. The modules comprise predefined questionsthat capture information on critical knowledge, attitudes and practices related to the 13 most common nutrition topics: Module 1: Feeding infants younger than 6 months; Module 2: Feeding young children (6–23 months); Module 3: Diet of school-aged children; Module 4: Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation; Module 5: Undernutrition; Module 6: Iron-deficiency anaemia; Module 7: Vitamin A deficiency'; Module 8: Iodine deficiency; Module 9: Food safety; Module 10: Personal hygiene; Module 11: Water and sanitation; Module 12: Food-based dietary guidelines; Module 13: Overweight and obesity.
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Guidelines for Assessing Nutrition-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Guidelines for
assessing nutrition-related
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices
by Yvette Fautsch Macías R.D., M.Sc.
FAO Nutrition Consultant
with Peter Glasauer Ph.D.
FAO Nutrition Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
Rome, 2014
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To obtain the electronic version of the manual and the KAP model questionnaires in MS Word format please go to:
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Cover photo: Interviewing a caregiver in Otdar Meanchey, Cambodia. ©FAO/Yvette Fautsch Macías
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Why was this manual prepared?
1.3 What does this manual provide?
1.4 How should you use this manual?
1.5 How was this manual prepared?
2 Concepts and purpose of KAP surveys
2.1 Terminology
2.2 Purpose
Situation analysis for intervention planning
Outcome evaluation
2.3 Key indicators: knowledge, attitudes and practices
Knowledge
Attitudes
Practices
3 Planning and conducting KAP surveys
3.1 Activities to undertake before conducting a KAP survey
Designing the survey questionnaire
Translating the survey questionnaire
Training the surveyors
Pre-testing the survey questionnaire
Sampling the survey population
3.2 Collecting data: procedures for administering the survey questionnaire
4 Analysing the data and reporting the results
4.1 Cleaning and entering the data
4.2 Analysing and using the results
Sociodemographic characteristics
Situation analysis for intervention planning
Outcome evaluation
4.3 Putting the results into context
4.4 Reporting the results
References
Appendixes
Appendix 1: Visual support to measure attitudes
Appendix 2: Readiness to change
Appendix 3: Informed consent form and sociodemographic questionnaire for caregivers of infants and young children (0–6 months and 6–23 months)
Appendix 4: Informed consent form and sociodemographic questionnaire for school-aged children
Appendix 5: Informed consent form and sociodemographic questionnaire for adults (> 18 years)
Appendix 6: Nutrition-related KAP model questionnaires
Module 1: Feeding infants (0–6 months)
Module 2: Feeding young children (6–23 months)
Module 3: Diet of school-aged children
Module 4: Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation
Module 5: Undernutrition
Module 6: Iron-deficiency anaemia
Module 7: Vitamin A deficiency
Module 8: Iodine deficiency
Module 9: Food safety
Module 10: Personal hygiene
Module 11: Water and sanitation
Module 12: Food-based dietary guidelines
Module 13: Overweight and obesity
Appendix 7: Examples of possible nutrition strategies for low KAP indicators
Appendix 8: Qualitative methods – basic information on data collection and analysis
Tables
Table 1: Examples of short-, medium- and long-term outcomes of nutrition interventions that include an educational component
Table 2: Health and nutrition-related attitudes
Table 3: Approaches used to measure dietary diversity, intake of specific foods, frequency of intake of specific foods and specific observable behaviours and the purposes for which they are used
Table 4: Overview of general and nutrition-related characteristics of children of three age categories
Table 5: Suggested threshold levels indicating the need for a nutrition-education intervention
Table 6: Factors that affect the results of a survey or study used in a situation analysis or outcome evaluation
Table 7: Sampling strategies and their impact on interpretation of survey data
Figures
Figure 1: Situation analysis and outcome evaluation
Figure 2: Guatemala Food Guide
Figure 3: Flowchart for defining survey objectives, survey population and selecting topics to cover for an outcome evaluation
Figure 4: Social, environmental and intrapersonal factors affecting practices
Boxes
Box 1: Attitudes – three or five-point scale?
Box 2: Measuring infant and young-child feeding practices
Box 3: Tips for selecting interviewers
Box 4: Pre-testing debriefing: points to check with surveyors
Box 5: Planning a KAP survey: summary
Box 6: Limitation of KAP surveys
Acronyms
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to all of those who contributed to the development of this manual.
Many people reviewed the first draft of the model questionnaires presented in Appendix 6, including Catherine Bessy (FAO Headquarters), Lalita Bhattacharjee (FAO Bangladesh), Florence Tonnoir (FAO Gabon), Shubhada Kanani (Network for Nutrition Awareness and Advocacy [NETNAA] India) and Pauline Samuda (Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, University of the West Indies, Jamaica). Their comments and suggestions contributed to improving the questionnaires.
The questionnaires were field-tested and validated in several countries; Delhi Anahí Trejo Hernández, Graciela Raya Giorguli, Estela Herrera Martignon, Jenifer Guerrero Morales and Elia Irene Corzo Nájera from the PESA Programme (Programa Especial para la Seguridad Alimentaria) in Mexico; Ana Elizabeth Hernández Marroquin, Cindy Elena and Rose Marie Rivas in El Salvador; Solange Heise in Malawi; and Yvette Fautsch Macías in Cambodia. These nutritionists trained and supervised enumerators, reported the results and modified the questionnaires accordingly. This process ensured that the questionnaires were valid, readable, easy to administer and were not burdensome for respondents. The guidelines also benefited greatly from lessons learned from the field-testing experience and the authors thank all those involved. Special thanks go to Iean Russell and the FAO staff in Cambodia for providing the facilities to conduct the field tests in that country.
Within FAO, Carmen Dardano, Jane Sherman, Gina Kennedy, Theresa Jeremias and Warren Lee provided very useful practical advice on both the guidelines and the questionnaires at various stages of the manual’s development. Ellen Muehlhoff reviewed and approved the final version.
The final document was edited by Paul Neate and designed and laid out by Joanne Morgante.
1Introduction
1.1 Background
Programmes and interventions in various sectors are increasingly aimed at improving nutrition. As a result, a growing number of professionals from diverse backgrounds are planning, implementing and evaluating interventions that include a nutrition component.
Implementing efforts to improve nutrition and measuring their impact requires suitable indicators and tools. Indicators of nutritional status are the most common indicators for assessing the impact of interventions with a nutrition focus. Formulating and designing targeted programmes and interventions, however, require more than just measuring nutritional status; they require a thorough understanding of what people actually eat and what personal factors underlie people’s dietary habits.
Studies that assess and analyse people’s nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) are a useful method for gaining such an insight into peoples’ personal determinants of their dietary habits. They can thus provide valuable inputs for effective programme and project planning. In addition, KAP studies are indispensable for evaluating nutrition-education and communication interventions, i.e. activities that explicitly address (and aim to improve) people’s nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and practices.
1.2 Why was this manual prepared?
Many KAP studies have been conducted by numerous researchers and institutions using a variety of approaches. In consequence, results of nutrition-related KAP surveys usually cannot be compared because of major differences in study design (quantitative, qualitative) and in how knowledge, attitudes and practices are defined and measured. Many reports do not provide detailed information about these crucial elements of the research protocol, and as a result the studies cannot be reproduced (1–7). Reports of KAP studies conducted in community settings by non-governmental organizations and international agencies also display major inconsistencies in the way findings are reported.
Some guidelines for conducting KAP studies already exist (8–10) and provide steps for the preparation and implementation of quantitative surveys. None of them, however, provides model questionnaires for assessing nutrition-related KAP, nor do they offer guidance for using KAP information within a situation analysis or for evaluating outcomes in the context of nutrition projects.
This manual aims at improving this situation by:
offering guidance for the effective planning, implementation and analysis of nutrition-related KAP surveys at the community level; and
contributing, through model questionnaires, to the standardization of KAP studies and thus to the comparability of their results.
1.3 What does this manual provide?
The manual offers guidance and practical steps for planning and conducting a KAP survey, and for analysing and reporting the survey findings. In order to keep the manual brief and focussed, we did not include detailed information on basic social research techniques such as sampling methods, statistical analyses or outcome evaluation designs. Where such information is particularly relevant to KAP studies, we highlight the issue.
The appendixes provide additional information on key topics, including a large collection of model questionnaires (referred to in this manual as modules) that were developed to facilitate the design of KAP survey questionnaires (Appendix 6, page 78). These modules comprise predefined questions that capture information on critical knowledge, attitudes and practices related to the 13 most common nutrition issues:
Module 1: Feeding infants younger than 6 months
Module 2: Feeding young children (6–23 months)
Module 3: Diet of school-aged children
Module 4: Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation
Module 5: