Reliability and validity of a brief questionnaire to assess television viewing and computer use by middle school children.

Sedentary behaviors, like television viewing, are positively associated with overweight among young people. To monitor national health objectives for sedentary behaviors in young adolescents, this project developed and assessed the reliability and validity of a brief questionnaire to measure weekly...

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Publicado en:Journal of School Health Vol. 74; no. 9; pp. 370 - 378
Autores principales: Schmitz KH, Harnack L, Fulton JE, Jacobs DR Jr., Gao S, Lytle LA, Van Coevering P
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2004
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          Schmitz KH
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          Fulton JE
          Jacobs DR Jr.
          Gao S
          Lytle LA
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          Computers and Computerization In Infancy and Childhood
          Instrument Validation
          Questionnaires
          Students, Middle School
          Television In Infancy and Childhood
          Adolescence
          Asians
          Black Persons
          Body Height
          Body Mass Index
          Body Weight
          Chi Square Test
          Child
          Concurrent Validity
          Daily Logs
          Data Analysis Software
          Descriptive Statistics
          Educational Status
          Female
          Focus Groups
          Funding Source
          Hispanic Americans
          kappa Statistic
          Sedentary Behavior
          Male
          Minnesota
          Native Americans
          P-Value
          Schools, Middle
          Self Report
          Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
          T-Tests
          Test-Retest Reliability
          Time Factors
          Urban Areas
          Validation Studies
          White Persons
          Human
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: Sedentary behaviors, like television viewing, are positively associated with overweight among young people. To monitor national health objectives for sedentary behaviors in young adolescents, this project developed and assessed the reliability and validity of a brief questionnaire to measure weekly television viewing, usual television viewing, and computer use by middle school children. Reliability and validity of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) question on weekday television viewing also were examined. A brief, five-item television and computer use questionnaire was completed twice by 245 middle school children with one week apart. To concurrently assess validity, students also completed television and computer use logs for seven days. Among all students, Spearman correlations for test-retest reliability for television viewing and computer use ranged from 0.55 to 0.68. Spearman correlations between the first questionnaire and the seven-day log produced the following results: YRBS question for weekday television viewing (0.46), weekend television viewing (0.37), average television viewing over the week (0.47), and computer use (0.39). Methods comparison analysis showed a mean difference (hours/week) between answers to questionnaire items and the log of -0.04 (1.70 standard deviation [SD]) hours for weekday television, -0.21 (2.54 SD) for weekend television, -0.09 (1.75 SD) for average television over the week, and 0.68 (1.26 SD) for computer use. The YRBS weekday television viewing question, and the newly developed questions to assess weekend television viewing, average television viewing, and computer use, produced adequate reliability and validity for surveillance of middle school students.
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