Methodological Papers, HBSC Ireland

1994

Abbet, J.P., Rehm, J. & Spinatsch, M. (1994). Missing values in responses to questions on drug use: the case of classroom questionnaire surveys in Swiss public schools. Addiction Research, 1(4), 367-376. download (484KB)

1997

Currie, C.E., Elton, R.A., Todd, J. & Platt, S. (1997). Indicators of socioeconomic status for adolescents: the WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey. Health Education Research, 12(3), 385-397. download (1.11MB)

1999

Smet, B., Maes, L., De Clercq, L., Haryanti, K. & Djati Winarno, R. (1999). The Health Behaviour of School-Aged Children in Semarang, Indonesia: methodological problems in cross-cultural research. Health Promotion International, 14, 7-16.
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2000

Torsheim, T., Wold, B. & Samdal, O. (2000). The Teacher and Classmate Support Scale: Factor Structure, test-retest reliability and validity in samples of 13- and 15 year old adolescents. School Psychology International, 21, 195-212. download (1.83MB)

2001

Haugland, S. & Wold, B. (2001). Subjective health in adolescence - Reliability and validity of survey methods. Journal of Adolescence, 24(5), 611-624. download (351KB)

2002

Hetland, J., Torsheim, T., Aarø, L.E. (2002). Subjective health complaints in adolescence: dimensional structure and variation across gender and age. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 30(3), 223-230. download (162KB)

2003

Vereecken, C. & Maes, L.A. (2003). A Belgian study on the reliability and relative validity of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children food frequency questionnaire. Public Health Nutrition, 6, 581-588. download (213KB)

Vereecken, C. & Vandegehuchte, A. (2003). Measurement of parental occupation: agreement between parents and their children. Archives of Public Health, 61, 141-149. download (102KB)

2004

Batista-Foguet, J.M., Fortiana, J., Currie, C. & Villalbi, J.R. (2004). Socioeconomic indexes in surveys for comparisons between countries. An applied comparison using the Family Affluence Scale. Social Indicators Research, 67(3), 315-332.
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Hagquist, C. & Andrich, D. (2004). Measuring subjective health among adolescents in Sweden. Social Indicators Research, 68(2), 201-220. download (185KB)

2005

Elgar, F., Moore, L., Roberts, C. & Tudor-Smith, C. (2005). Validity of self-reported height and weight and predictors of bias in adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37(5), 371-375. download (94KB)

2006

Boyce, W., Torsheim, T., Currie, C. & Zambon, A. (2006), The Family Affluence Scale as a measure of national wealth: validation of an adolescent self-reported measure. Social Indicators Research, 78(3), 473-487. download (140KB)

Vereecken, C. & Maes, L.A. (2006). Comparison of a computer administered and paper and pencil administered questionnaire on health and lifestyle behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 38, 426-432. download (251KB)

2007

Andersen, A., Krølner, R., Holstein, B.E., Due, P., Hansen, E.H. (2007). Medicine Use Among 11- and 13-years-old: agreement between parents’ reports and children's self-reports. Annals of Pharmacotherapy , 41(4), 581-6. download (122KB)

Molcho, M., Nic Gabhainn, S. & Kelleher, C. (2007) Assessing the use of the Family Affluence scale among Irish School Children. Irish Medical Journal, 100(8), 37-39. download (1980KB)

Roberts, C., Currie, C., Samdal, O., Currie, D., Smith, R. & Maes, L. (2007). Measuring the health and health behaviours of adolescents through cross-national survey research: recent developments in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Journal of Public Health , 15(3), 179-186. download (144KB)

Schnohr, C., Kreiner, S., Due, P., Currie, C., Boyce, W. & Diderichsen, F. (2007). Differential item functioning of a family affluence scale: Validation study on data from HBSC 2001/02. Social Indicators Research, 89(1), 79-95. download (257KB)

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