Evaluating content validity and test-retest reliability of the children's health risk behavior scale.
OBJECTIVE
Describe the instrument development process and report the validity and reliability of the Children's Health Risk Behavior Scale (CHRBS), a scale designed to screen for health risk behaviors among youth aged 10-13 Years.


METHODS
Domain identification and item generation using the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and testing relevance and test-retest reliability among a target audience sample of 77 fifth graders in their classrooms in two separate public school districts.


RESULTS
Youth performed their tasks as expert item reviewers effectively. Twenty-one items comprise the CHRBS with a reading level determined to be at the third grade.


CONCLUSIONS
We have developed a reliable and valid measure to assess late elementary youth's participation in health risk behavior.
Riesch
Susan K
SK
Waisman Center for Human Development and Developmental Disabilities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA. skriech@wisc.edu
Anderson
Lori S
LS
Angresano
Nicole
N
Canty-Mitchell
Janie
J
Johnson
Deborah L
DL
Krainuwat
Kerada
K
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012309:Risk-Taking; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires