Favorable Nutrition Injunctive Norm is a 10-item measure of injunctive norms related to adolescent girls' food habits. The measure examines the respondents' perceptions regarding expectations of community members, for food habits of adolescent girls (e.g., girls should eat the same amount of food as their male siblings, girls should eat after boys eat etc.).
Geographies Tested: Ethiopia
Populations Included: Female
Age Range: Adolescents
Community members expect
adolescent girls:
1. To eat the same amount of
food as their male siblings or
husbands
2. To eat at the same time as
their brothers
3. To have the same quality of
food as everybody in the
family
4. To eat at the same time with
their husbands
5. To eat the same type of food
as their husband
6. To eat as frequently as
adolescent boys
7. To consume less amount of
food than everybody in the
family during times of food
shortage or drought
8. To eat before everybody in
the family during pregnancy
9. To eat before everybody in
the family eats
10. To eat after everybody in the
family eats
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 40.
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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