TY - JOUR
T1 - Survey development to assess college students’ perceptions of the campus environment
AU - Sowers, Morgan F.
AU - Colby, Sarah
AU - Greene, Geoffrey W.
AU - Pickett, Mackenzie
AU - Franzen-Castle, Lisa
AU - Olfert, Melissa D.
AU - Shelnutt, Karla
AU - Brown, Onikia
AU - Horacek, Tanya M.
AU - Kidd, Tandalayo
AU - Kattelmann, Kendra K.
AU - White, Adrienne A.
AU - Zhou, Wenjun
AU - Riggsbee, Kristin
AU - Yan, Wangcheng
AU - Byrd-Bredbenner, Carol
N1 - Funding Information: This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, under award number 2014-67001-21851.
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - Objective: We developed and tested a College Environmental Perceptions Survey (CEPS) to assess college students’ perceptions of the healthfulness of their campus. Methods: CEPS was developed in 3 stages: questionnaire development, validity testing, and reliability testing. Questionnaire development was based on an extensive literature review and input from an expert panel to establish content validity. Face validity was established with the target population using cognitive interviews with 100 college students. Concurrent-criterion validity was established with in-depth interviews (N = 30) of college students compared to surveys completed by the same 30 students. Surveys completed by college students from 8 universities (N = 1147) were used to test internal structure (factor analysis) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha). Results: After development and testing, 15 items remained from the original 48 items. A 5-factor solution emerged: physical activity (4 items, a = .635), water (3 items, a = .773), vending (2 items, a = .680), healthy food (2 items, a = .631), and policy (2 items, a = .573). The mean total score for all universities was 62.71 (±11.16) on a 100-point scale. Conclusion: CEPS appears to be a valid and reliable tool for assessing college students’ perceptions of their health-related campus environment.
AB - Objective: We developed and tested a College Environmental Perceptions Survey (CEPS) to assess college students’ perceptions of the healthfulness of their campus. Methods: CEPS was developed in 3 stages: questionnaire development, validity testing, and reliability testing. Questionnaire development was based on an extensive literature review and input from an expert panel to establish content validity. Face validity was established with the target population using cognitive interviews with 100 college students. Concurrent-criterion validity was established with in-depth interviews (N = 30) of college students compared to surveys completed by the same 30 students. Surveys completed by college students from 8 universities (N = 1147) were used to test internal structure (factor analysis) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha). Results: After development and testing, 15 items remained from the original 48 items. A 5-factor solution emerged: physical activity (4 items, a = .635), water (3 items, a = .773), vending (2 items, a = .680), healthy food (2 items, a = .631), and policy (2 items, a = .573). The mean total score for all universities was 62.71 (±11.16) on a 100-point scale. Conclusion: CEPS appears to be a valid and reliable tool for assessing college students’ perceptions of their health-related campus environment.
KW - College
KW - Environment
KW - Perceptions
KW - Survey development
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.41.6.4
DO - https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.41.6.4
M3 - Article
C2 - 29025498
SN - 1087-3244
VL - 41
SP - 701
EP - 709
JO - American Journal of Health Behavior
JF - American Journal of Health Behavior
IS - 6
ER -