Methodological Papers, HBSC Ireland

2010

Liu, Y., Wang, M., Tynjälä, J., Lv, Y., Villberg, J., Zhang, Z. and Kannas, L. (2010). Test-retest reliability of selected items of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey questionnaire in Beijing, China. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 10(1), 73. download (252KB)

2009

Erhart, M., Ottova, V., Gaspar, T., Jericek, H., Schnohr, C., Alikasifoglu, M., Morgan, A., Ravens-Sieberer, U. and the HBSC Positive Health Focus Group (2009). Measuring mental health and well-being of school-children in 15 European countries using the KIDSCREEN-10 Index . International Journal of Public Health, 54, S160-166. download (123KB)

Goldstein, H., Carpenter, J., Kenward, M.G., Levin, K.A. (2009). Multilevel models with multivariate mixed response types. Statistical Modelling, 9(3), 173-197. download (331KB)

Roberts, C., Freeman, J., Samdal, O., Schnohr, C.W., de Looze, M.E., Nic Gabhainn, S., Iannotti, R., Rasmussen, M. & the International HBSC Study Group. (2009). The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study: methodological developments and current tensions. International Journal of Public Health, 54, S140-150. download (205KB)

2008

Andersen, A., Krølner, R., Currie, C., Dallago, L., Due, P., Richter, M., Örkényi, Á. and Holstein, B.E. (2008). High agreement on family affluence between children's and parents' reports: international study of 11-year-old children. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 62(12), 1092-1094. download (157KB)

Currie, C., Molcho, M., Boyce, W., Holstein, B., Torsheim, T. & Richter, M. (2008). Researching health inequalities in adolescents: the development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Family Affluence Scale. Social Science & Medicine, 66(6), 1429-1436. download (164KB)

Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M., Torsheim, T., Hetland, J., Freeman, J., Danielson, M., Thomas, C. & the HBSC Positive Health Group. (2008). An international scoring system for self-reported health complaints in adolescents. The European Journal of Public Health, 18(3), 294-299. download  (88KB)

Schnohr, C., Kreiner, S., Due, P., Currie, C., Boyce, W. & Diderichsen, F. (2008). 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)

Simões, C., Batista-Foguet, J.M., Matos, M.G. and Calmeiro, L. (2008). Alcohol use and abuse in adolescence: proposal of an alternative analysis. Child: Care, Health and Development, 34(3), 291-301. download (581KB)

Vereecken, C., Giacchi, M., Rossi, S. and Maes, L. (2008). Comparison of a short food-frequency questionnaire and derived indices with a seven-day diet record in Belgian and Italian children. International Journal of Public Health, 53(6), 297-305. download (128KB)

Walsh, K., Molcho, M., Dineen, B., Kelleher, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008) Cluster randomisation and design effects in school surveys: an exploration of the Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s37-s39. download (897KB)

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)

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) 

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)

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) 

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)

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) 

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)  

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)

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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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)

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)

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