Validity and reliability of the South African health promoting schools monitoring questionnaire.
Health promoting schools, as conceptualised by the World Health Organisation, have been developed in many countries to facilitate the health-education link. In 1994, the concept of health promoting schools was introduced in South Africa. In the process of becoming a health promoting school, it is important for schools to monitor and evaluate changes and developments taking place. The Health Promoting Schools (HPS) Monitoring Questionnaire was developed to obtain opinions of students about their school as a health promoting school. It comprises 138 questions in seven sections: socio-demographic information; General health promotion programmes; health related Skills and knowledge; Policies; Environment; Community-school links; and support Services. This paper reports on the reliability and face validity of the HPS Monitoring Questionnaire. Seven experts reviewed the questionnaire and agreed that it has satisfactory face validity. A test-retest reliability study was conducted with 83 students in three high schools in Cape Town, South Africa. The kappa-coefficients demonstrate mostly fair (κ-scores between 0.21 and 0.4) to moderate (κ-scores between 0.41 and 0.6) agreement between test-retest General and Environment items; poor (κ-scores up to 0.2) agreement between Skills and Community test-retest items, fair agreement between Policies items, and for most of the questions focussing on Services a fair agreement was found. The study is a first effort at providing a tool that may be used to monitor and evaluate students' opinions about changes in health promoting schools. Although the HPS Monitoring Questionnaire has face validity, the results of the reliability testing were inconclusive. Further research is warranted.
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
Patricia
P
Struthers
Occupational Therapy Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
Lisa
L
Wegner
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.|Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Petra
P
de Koker
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.|Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Wondwossen
W
Lerebo
Department of Statistics, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
Renette J
RJ
Blignaut
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013019:South Africa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
South Africa; health promoting schools; monitoring questionnaire; reliability; validity
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