Assessing the Construct Validity and Reliability of School Health Records Using the ‘Health Dialogue Questionnaire’ in the Eleventh Grade

AIMS Public Health

Niclas Olofsson¹  Malin Rising Holmstrom¹  Lisbeth Kristiansen² 

[1] Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden;Department of Nursing Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden;

关键词: adolescents;    construct validity;    factor analysis;    health dialogue questionnaire;    health promotion;   

DOI  :  10.3934/publichealth.2016.3.470

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The aim for this study was to assess the construct validity and reliability of the Health Dialogue Questionnaire (HDQ^©) for eleventh grade in school through comparison of the HDQ^© with Paediatric Quality Of Life Inventory (PedsQL^TM), Local monitoring of youth policy questionnaire (LUPP^®), Health behaviour in Swedish school-aged children (HBSC^©), Equal health (EH^©) and The Swedish Survey Youth on Alcohol Consumption (SSYAC^©). Methods: Cross-sectional samples of eleventh graders from the academic year 2009/2010 was used from the HDQ^© (n = 2752), the HBSC^© (n = 2090), the PedsQL^TM (n = 666), the “LUPP^®” questionnaires (n = 2400), EH^© (n = 258), and SSYAC^© (n = 1748) in the academic year 2009/2010. A comparison between HDQ^© and the different proxies was done. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed as well as a Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix (MTMM), in order to evaluate the construct validity and reliability of HDQ^©. Results: An average disagreement between HDQ^© and proxies with 10 percentages was found. Exploratory factor analysis of HDQ^© on the 2009/2010 sample suggested a four factor solution (girls factor solution 65% of total variance explained, and in the boys’ solution 59% of total variance explained). A second sample 2010/2011 of eleventh graders were used for the confirmatory solution. Almost perfectly similar four factor solutions with were found (girls 58% of total variance explained and boys 56% of the total variance explained). Using MTMM the reliability was generally high and HDQ^© and showed agreeable validity. Discussion and conclusions: The HDQ^© questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring eleventh graders self-reported-health in school.

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