The Turkish version of the Preschool Eating, Lifestyle, and Sleeping Attitudes (PRELSA) Scale is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing parental attitudes toward eating behaviors, physical activity, screen use, and sleep routines in early childhood.
The Turkish PRELSA Scale demonstrated good overall internal consistency reliability.
Exploratory factor analysis of the Turkish PRELSA Scale explained 58.5% of the total variance.
Confirmatory factor analysis indicated acceptable model fit for the Turkish PRELSA Scale.
The Turkish PRELSA Scale demonstrated high test-retest reliability and good temporal stability.
The adaptation process of the Turkish PRELSA Scale followed a systematic methodological protocol.
Childhood obesity in preschool years is strongly influenced by modifiable parental attitudes and behaviors.
This research suggests that a Turkish-language version of a parenting attitudes survey — called the PRELSA Scale — can reliably and accurately measure how parents think and behave around their young children's eating habits, physical activity, screen time, and sleep routines. The study tested the survey with 460 parents of preschool-aged children (ages 2–6) across seven schools in Central Anatolia, Turkey. The researchers used multiple statistical methods to confirm that the 39-item, 13-subscale questionnaire performs well: scores were consistent over time (test-retest reliability of 0.911) and the survey's internal structure held together strongly (Cronbach's alpha of 0.887). The importance of this work lies in the fact that obesity during the preschool years is closely tied to parental habits and attitudes that can be changed. Having a validated tool in Turkish means that researchers and healthcare providers in Turkey can now systematically measure these attitudes in large groups of parents, which is a necessary first step before designing or evaluating programs aimed at reducing childhood obesity. Previously, no such validated Turkish instrument existed for this specific purpose. This research suggests that the Turkish PRELSA Scale can serve as a practical and trustworthy assessment tool in clinical and research settings. By identifying which parental attitudes around food, activity, screen use, and sleep are problematic, health professionals may be better positioned to target interventions during the critical early childhood window when lifestyle habits are first being formed.
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Upload Your LabsBolacali E, Bolacali M. (2026). Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Preschool Eating, Lifestyle, and Sleeping Attitudes (PRELSA) scale.. BMC pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-026-07532-9