An international scoring system for self-reported health complaints in adolescents.
BACKGROUND: Aimed to develop a unitary scoring system for the 'Health Behaviour in school-aged Children' (HBSC) symptom checklist that would facilitate cross-national comparisons and interpretation. Rasch measurement analysis and investigation of differential item functioning (DIF) were conducted. M...
| Published in: | European Journal of Public Health Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 294 - 300 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105815774&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105815774 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 11011262 BHW jtl: European Journal of Public Health issn: 11011262 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2008 vid: 18 iid: 3 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 105815774 105815774 2009980780 10.1093/eurpub/ckn001 NLM18252752 105815774 ppf: 294 ppct: 6 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: An international scoring system for self-reported health complaints in adolescents. aug: au: Ravens-Sieberer U Erhart M Torsheim T Hetland J Freeman J Danielson M Thomas C affil: School of Public Health, WHO Collaborating Center for Child and Adolescent Health Promotion, University of Bielefeld, Germany. U.Ravens-Sieberer@uni-bielefeld.de sug: subj: Adolescent Medicine Methods Adolescent Psychology Data Analysis, Statistical Severity of Illness Indices Adolescence Adolescent Behavior Africa, Northern Child Ethnological Research Europe Factor Analysis Female Logistic Regression Male Psychometrics Reproducibility of Results Self Disclosure Surveys World Health Organization Human Adolescent: 13-18 years Child: 6-12 years Female Male ab: BACKGROUND: Aimed to develop a unitary scoring system for the 'Health Behaviour in school-aged Children' (HBSC) symptom checklist that would facilitate cross-national comparisons and interpretation. Rasch measurement analysis and investigation of differential item functioning (DIF) were conducted. METHODS: Data were obtained from the 'WHO collaborative study HBSC 2001/2002'. A total of 162,305 students aged 11, 13 and 15 years from 35 European and North American Countries were surveyed. Unidimensionality of the items and local independence were tested using means of confirmatory factor analysis. DIF across countries, age groups and gender was investigated using a logistic regression procedure. Item and person parameters were estimated according to the Rating Scale Model (RSM). RESULTS: All items proved to be unidimensional. One item displayed noticeable DIF across countries and was discarded. The remaining items were functioning equally across subgroups. The RSM analysis resulted in Rasch model conform item parameter estimation. Infit mean square values between 0.84 and 1.35 revealed acceptable item fit. CONCLUSION: The control of DIF enables comparable and unbiased assessment of subjective health complaints across countries, age groups and gender. A scoring algorithm could be developed which enables a cross-cultural comparable and interval-scaled assessment of subjective health complaints. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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