B. Instruments and Measurements
Structured questionnaire was designed to capture the
importance of perceived barriers to healthy eating among the
Malaysian adults. The respondents were asked to complete
the demographic questions on gender, age and marital status.
In the next section, they were requested to indicate the degree
of importance for each barrier of the 22-item in perceived
barriers to healthy eating adopted from [11]. The
questionnaire using a 7-point scale and the response ranging
from 1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree as attitudinal
measurement of respondents‟ perceived barriers to eating
healthily.