Reliability and Validity of the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2000 Questionnaires

To help assess the quality of the questionnaires developed for the School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a data quality substudy in conjunction with SHPPS 2000. The substudy assessed validity of the state‐ and district‐...

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Published in:The Journal of school health 2003-01, Vol.73 (1), p.29-37
Main Authors: Brener, Nancy D., Kann, Laura, Smith, Timothy K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Classrooms
Cognitive Tests
Community Involvement
Computers
Data Collection
Disease Control
Elementary Education
Elementary Schools
Elementary Secondary Education
Field Tests
Food Service
Health
Health aspects
Health Education
Health Policy
Health Programs
Health Promotion
Health Services
High Schools
Humans
Interviews
Literature Reviews
Mental Health
Nursing
Physical Education
Program Evaluation
Public schools
Quality of Health Care
Questionnaires
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
School Health Services
School Health Services - standards
School Policy
School Size
Schools
Smoking
Social Services
Student health services
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
Test Reliability
Test Validity
United States
Validity
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Summary:To help assess the quality of the questionnaires developed for the School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a data quality substudy in conjunction with SHPPS 2000. The substudy assessed validity of the state‐ and district‐level questionnaires through telephone interviews with a subsample of the original state‐ and district‐level respondents, and the test‐retest reliability of the school‐ and classroom‐level questionnaires through computer‐assisted repeat interviews with a subsample of the school‐ and classroom‐level respondents. Results indicated that although a few threats to the validity of responses to the state‐ and district‐level questionnaires were identified, the questionnaires generally produced valid data. Among the school‐ and classroom‐level questionnaires, some questions demonstrated poor reliability, but most exhibited moderate or substantial reliability, and some exhibited almost perfect reliability. CDC will use these results to revise the SHPPS 2000 questionnaires and will consider alternative methods of data collection to improve the quality of data collected in future versions of SHPPS.
ISSN:0022-4391
1746-1561
DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2003.tb06556.x