Feeding of preschool children in Vietnam: a study of parents’ practices and associated factors

BMC Nutrition

Table 2 Estimated values of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient together with the results from two other studies, one Swedish [22] and one Japanese [16]

Subscale	Abbreviated variable name	Vietnam urban	Vietnam rural	Sweden	Japan
Perceived responsibility	PR	0.91	0.91	0.78	0.78
Perceived parent weight	PPW	0.69	0.73	0.65	0.69
Perceived child weight	PCW	0.78	0.86	0.75	0.84
Concern about child weight	CN	0.92	0.76	0.84	0.85
Restriction	RST	0.72	0.79	0.83	0.89
Pressure to eat	PE	0.49	0.43	0.70	0.65
Monitoring	MN	0.93	0.88	0.76	0.90

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