A nutrition attitude instrument for nursing students.

This communication has focused on selected aspects of attitude measurement used in developing an attitude instrument, composed of one scale, appropriate for nursing students. The study generated a scale with a Coefficient Alpha of r = 0.87 and a split-half reliability estimate of r = 0.84. Due to the dependence of these reliability estimates on statistical correlations, the size and/or the manner of the selection of the sample is an important consideration. The study was discussed in relation to the present status of attitude measurement in nutrition education research.