[Reliability and validity of a sub-health symptom check scale for college students].
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the reliability and validity of a sub-health symptom check scale for college students.


METHODS
Using a multi-phase cluster sampling method, a total of 1200 college students from Changsha city were tested with a sub-health symptom check scale; 1143 valid questionnaires were received to assess the internal consistency reliability coefficient and split-half reliability coefficient; 111 students were retested 14 days later to assess the reliability of the scale, 112 students were also tested with the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) to evaluate the criterion-related validity of the scale.


RESULTS
The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.946 and the test-retest correlation coefficient was 0.701. Taking SCL-90 as a criterion, the criterion-related validity of the scale was 0.875. The scores of the scale were significantly different in gender and between sub-healthy and healthy students.


CONCLUSIONS
The scale is reliable, effective, and sensitive, and could be applied to evaluate the sub-health status of college students.
Yang
Si
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School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha 410013, China. hnningxiner@163.com
Chen
Chong
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Liu
Xiaojuan
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Yang
Tubao
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D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult