Favorable Nutrition Descriptive Norm is a 12-item measure of descriptive norms related to adolescent girls' food habits. The measure examines the respondents' perceptions regarding food habits of adolescent girls (e.g., girls eat the same amount of food as their male siblings, girls eat after boys eat etc.) in the community.
Geographies Tested: Ethiopia
Populations Included: Female
Age Range: Adolescents
Most adolescent girls in the
community:
1. Eat the same amount of food
as their male siblings or
husbands
2. Eat after adolescent boys eat
3. Eat after everybody in the
family eats
4. Eat the same quality of food
as their male siblings
5. Usually eat together with
their husbands
6. Eat the same type of food
quality of food as their
husbands’
7. Eat as frequently as boys of
the same age
8. Often eat less amount of food
than everybody in the family
during times of food shortage
or drought
9. Usually eat before their male
siblings or husbands
10. Usually eat before everybody
in the family eats
11. Usually eat after everybody in
the family eats
12. Most pregnant women usually eat before everybody in the family
Response Options:
Do not know - 0
Strongly unfavorable response - 1
Unfavorable response - 2
Favorable response - 3
Strongly favorable response - 4
All responses are summed to calculate a final score between 0 and 48.
Berhane, Y., Worku, A., Tewahido, D., Fasil, N., Gulema, H., Tadesse, A. W., & Abdelmenan, S. (2019). Adolescent girls' agency significantly correlates with favorable social norms in Ethiopia-Implications for improving sexual and reproductive health of young adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64(4S), S52-S59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.12.018
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