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The Child Health Questionnaire in Australia: reliability, validity and population means

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posted on 2000-04-01, 00:00 authored by E Waters, L Salmon, M Wake, Kylie HeskethKylie Hesketh, M Wright
OBJECTIVE: To provide reliability, validity and population means for the Australian Authorized Adaptation of the parent-report Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ). METHOD: We surveyed a representative sample of Australian parents of school-aged children (5-18 years) in Victoria between July and December 1997, using a school-based cluster sample design stratified by educational sector and age. RESULTS: Some 5,414 parents responded (72%). Good psychometric performance was observed for the CHQ in Australia. Population means demonstrated differences in health on domains of functioning and well-being by age and gender. This population-derived sample demonstrated high ceiling values on Physical Functioning and Social Role scales. IMPLICATIONS: The CHQ appears to be a reliable and valid measure of child and adolescent functional health and well-being for the Australian population. Child health outcomes of children and adolescents with particular conditions or within population subgroups can be compared with these age and gender benchmarks. Appropriate uses for the CHQ may be to discriminate between children who are generally healthy and children with health problems, or in population surveys partnered with measures that extend the range of physical functioning and social functioning.

History

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volume

24

Issue

2

Pagination

207 - 210

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

ISSN

1326-0200

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2000, The Authors