Abstract
Background: MIND diet is a nutritional model that has positive effects on neurological diseases, cognitive function and mental health, as it contains nutrients with antioxidant properties. The MIND diet scale was developed to evaluate the diet's adherence with the MIND nutritional model principles. Objectives: This study aimed to adapt the MIND Diet Scale into Turkish and assess validity, reliability of the scale in the Turkish population. Method: Language adaptation of the scale was provided and the serving sizes in the scale items were adapted to our country. Then, the scale was applied to volunteer participants aged 18 and over. The data of 150 participants were analyzed. Content, concurrent validity and reliability of the scale was tested. Cronbach’s α (internal consistency) and test-retest reliability were used to assess the reliability. Results: The Cronbach's Alpha value of the 15-item MIND diet scale was 0.626 and the scale was found to have moderate reliability. Test and retest correlation also shows that the MIND diet scale is a reliable scale (r=0.591; p
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