Correction: Effects of food neophobia and oral health on the nutritional status of community-dwelling older adults

Development and validation of Japanese version of alternative food neophobia scale (J-FNS-A): association with willingness to eat alternative protein foods

“…This coincides with the average Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the four surveys reported previously (60). Furthermore, the internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient) of the three surveys (preliminary 2: α = 0.83, main: α = 0.83, follow-up: α = 0.87) was generally higher than the previously reported Japanese translation of Pliner and Hobden's FNS (45,(47)(48)(49), despite including a smaller number of items. The correlations between the 8 items of the J-FNS-A were not very strong (rs = 0.09-0.68) considering a single continuous scale, suggesting that each of the 8 items successfully captures various characteristics of FN in Japanese.…”

“…However, studies on Japanese FN are insufficient in terms of both quality and quantity. Even though the English version of the FNS (25) was used with Japanese participants, it lacked language information and translated content and did not assess the internal consistency of the scale or remove certain items (45)(46)(47)(48)(49). In the study of Imada and Yoneyama, 14-item Japanese statements related to food neophilia (3 items) and FN (11 items) were selected from 41 statements that were originally generated by 27 Japanese university students, and a factor structure of the Japanese version of the FNS was tested using an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to verify its validity (50); however, some questions remain, such as 3 items related to the avoidance factor that do not show negative factor loadings for the approach factor.…”