Consistency of Self-Report in School Age Children with Asthma
Abstract
There is increasing use of self-report for data collection in research of children and their health related concepts. From a developmental perspective, it is assumed that children can be accurate historians after age 8 years. Despite this trend and assumption, few studies have explicitly examined either the extent to which children are capable of consistent self-report or the age at which this occurs. Yet, without accuracy and consistency, child self- report is a relatively futile approach to use when assessing or evaluating interventions. This study examined the consistency of self-report among 45 children age 8-12 years with asthma. Consistency contains two aspects: consistency across time or longitudinal consistency and consistency between two measures of the same concepts at the same point in time. The purpose of this study was to answer the following questions: Is there consistency in the children's self-report regarding important asthma management issues over a 3 month time frame? Is there consistency in the children's self-report of what they feel is important between two rating methods (rank order and weighting) at the same point in time? And, does the level of consistency across time and measures differ by experimental versus control group? It was expected that children in this age group would be consistent both longitudinally and between measures and that no significant differences would be found between experimental and control group.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA243355
Entities
People
- Barbara J. Heiller
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology