TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and Validation of Nutrition and Food Safety Educational Material for Fish Processors in Nigeria
AU - Adegoye, Grace Adeola
AU - Tolar-Peterson, Terezie
AU - Ene-Obong, Henrietta Nkechi
AU - Nuntah, Joseph Nkem
AU - Pasqualino, Monica M.
AU - Mathews, Rahel
AU - Silva, Juan L.
AU - Cheng, Wen Hsing
AU - Evans, Marion Willard
AU - Pincus, Lauren
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was developed as part of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish (FIL), the US Government’s hunger and food security initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This initiative aims to reduce poverty and improve nutrition, food security, and livelihoods in low-income countries by supporting projects in sustainable aquaculture and fisheries [], as well as working towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, and 5 [] through innovation central to advancing novel solutions that support goals that reduce global hunger, poverty, and undernutrition and promote quality education and gender equality.
Funding Information:
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Award No. 7200AA18CA00030; M. Lawrence, PI, and provides support to Nourishing Nations (Grant No. 322553 012000 027000 609360; T. Tolar-Peterson).
Funding Information:
This manuscript is made possible by the generous support of the American people provided by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the partial contribution of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES), Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA. The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish is managed by Mississippi State University through an award from USAID.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Introduction: fish can be an affordable and accessible animal-source food in many Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). Background: Traditional fish processing methods pose a risk of exposing fish to various contaminants that may reduce their nutritional benefit. In addition, a lack of literacy may increase women fish processors’ vulnerability to malnutrition and foodborne diseases. Objective: The overall aim of the project was to educate women and youth fish processors in Delta State, Nigeria about the benefit of fish in the human diet and to develop low literacy tools to help them better market their products. The objective of this study was to describe the development and validation of a low-literacy flipbook designed to teach women fish processors about nutrition and food safety. Method: developing and validating instructional material requires understanding the population, high-quality and relevant graphics, and the involvement of relevant experts to conduct the content validation using the Content Validity Index (CVI) and the index value translated with the Modified Kappa Index (k). Result: The Item-level Content Validity Index (I-CVI) value of all domains evaluated at the initial stage was 0.83 and the Scale-level Content Validity Index (S-CVI) was 0.90. At the final stage, the material was validated with CVI 0.983 by four experts and satisfied the expected minimum CVI value for this study (CVI ≥ 0.83, p-value = 0.05). The overall evaluation of the newly developed and validated flipbook was “excellent”. Conclusions: the developed material was found to be appropriate for training fish processors in Nigeria in nutrition and food safety and could be modified for a population of fish processors in other LMICs.
AB - Introduction: fish can be an affordable and accessible animal-source food in many Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). Background: Traditional fish processing methods pose a risk of exposing fish to various contaminants that may reduce their nutritional benefit. In addition, a lack of literacy may increase women fish processors’ vulnerability to malnutrition and foodborne diseases. Objective: The overall aim of the project was to educate women and youth fish processors in Delta State, Nigeria about the benefit of fish in the human diet and to develop low literacy tools to help them better market their products. The objective of this study was to describe the development and validation of a low-literacy flipbook designed to teach women fish processors about nutrition and food safety. Method: developing and validating instructional material requires understanding the population, high-quality and relevant graphics, and the involvement of relevant experts to conduct the content validation using the Content Validity Index (CVI) and the index value translated with the Modified Kappa Index (k). Result: The Item-level Content Validity Index (I-CVI) value of all domains evaluated at the initial stage was 0.83 and the Scale-level Content Validity Index (S-CVI) was 0.90. At the final stage, the material was validated with CVI 0.983 by four experts and satisfied the expected minimum CVI value for this study (CVI ≥ 0.83, p-value = 0.05). The overall evaluation of the newly developed and validated flipbook was “excellent”. Conclusions: the developed material was found to be appropriate for training fish processors in Nigeria in nutrition and food safety and could be modified for a population of fish processors in other LMICs.
KW - content validity
KW - educational material
KW - food safety
KW - literacy
KW - low- and middle-income countries
KW - nutrition
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph20064891
DO - 10.3390/ijerph20064891
M3 - Article
C2 - 36981799
AN - SCOPUS:85151107831
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 20
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 6
M1 - 4891
ER -