title: Validity of parent's self-reported responses to home safety questions.
abstract: The aim of the study was to describe the validity of parent's self-reported responses to questions on home safety practices for children of 2-4 years. A cross-sectional validation study compared parent's self-administered responses to items in the Home Injury Prevention Survey with home observations undertaken by trained researchers. The relationship between the questionnaire and observation results was assessed using percentage agreement, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and intraclass correlation coefficients. Percentage agreements ranged from 44% to 100% with 40 of the total 45 items scoring higher than 70%. Sensitivities ranged from 0% to 100%, with 27 items scoring at least 70%. Specificities also ranged from 0% to 100%, with 33 items scoring at least 70%. As such, the study identified a series of self-administered home safety questions that have sensitivities, specificities and predictive values sufficiently high to allow the information to be useful in research and injury prevention practice.
authors.affiliation: a School of Medicine , Griffith University , Meadowbrook , Australia.
authors.forename: Jodie M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Osborne
authors.affiliation: b School of Accountancy, Faculty of Business , Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane , Australia.
authors.forename: Rania
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shibl
authors.affiliation: c Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Griffith Health Institute , Griffith University , Meadowbrook , Australia.
authors.forename: Cate M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.affiliation: d School of Medicine, Division of Primary Care , University of Nottingham , Nottingham , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kendrick
authors.affiliation: e Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research , Swansea University , Swansea , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ronan A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.affiliation: a School of Medicine , Griffith University , Meadowbrook , Australia.|f Ecosystem Sciences , Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) , Dutton Park , Australia.
authors.forename: Anneliese B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Spinks
authors.affiliation: g School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management , The University of Queensland , St Lucia , Australia.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sipe
authors.affiliation: h Harvard Injury Control Research Center , Harvard School of Public Health , Boston , USA.
authors.forename: Roderick J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: McClure
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control; D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012449:Safety / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057566:Self Report; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Home Injury Prevention Survey; home audit; home injuries; home safety; validation study