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      Subjective health complaints in adolescence--reliability and validity of survey methods.

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      Journal of adolescence
      Elsevier BV

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          This paper studies test-retest reliability and validity of one measure of adolescent health complaints. The test-retest included an eight-item symptom checklist developed for the survey of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (n=344). Qualitative analysis showed adequate validity for most items. For the total sample, all items were found to have adequate intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) in the range 0.61-0.75. There were inter-item differences and girls generally received the higher values. Most changes were within one category. Adolescents' understanding of 16 complaints was studied by interviews with 38 adolescents. A few items showed ambiguity in interviews despite adequate test-retest stability.

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          Journal
          J Adolesc
          Journal of adolescence
          Elsevier BV
          0140-1971
          0140-1971
          Oct 2001
          : 24
          : 5
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Research Center for Health Promotion, University of Bergen, Norway. Siren.haugland@psych.uib.no
          Article
          S0140-1971(00)90393-2
          10.1006/jado.2000.0393
          11676508
          5a033ee8-3deb-4732-b7ee-bd864169b0e4
          Copyright 2001 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents.
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