Reliability of the 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Questionnaire

Brener, Nancy D.; Kann, Laura; McManus, Tim; Kinchen, Steve; Sundberg, Elizabeth C; Ross, James G.

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(02)00339-7

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“…The questions were adopted from the Youth Risk Behaviour Survey 24,25 . Students were asked to indicate which of a series of contraceptive options they, or their sexual partner, had used at last intercourse; the list comprised condoms, oral contraceptive pills and withdrawal, with many countries adding national options to the list.…”

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How well protected are sexually active 15-year olds? Cross-national patterns in condom and contraceptive pill use 2002–2006

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Boyce

et al. 2009

Int J Public Health

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How well protected are sexually active 15-year olds? Cross-national patterns in condom and contraceptive pill use 2002–2006

Gabhainn

Băban

Boyce

et al. 2009

Int J Public Health

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“…Finally, youths who were 11 years and older completed an audio computer-assisted interview about substance use in which they were asked about their lifetime and past 30-day use of alcohol, glue or gasoline sniffing, marijuana, pills (without a prescription), and hard drugs. This interview was based on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey Questionnaire and has been shown to have adequate test-retest reliability (Brener et al, 2002).…”

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Social, Emotional, and Academic Competence Among Children Who Have Had Contact With Child Protective Services: Prevalence and Stability Estimates

Jaffee

Gallop

2007

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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Objective-To estimate the prevalence and stability of social, emotional, and academic competence in a nationally representative sample of children involved with child protective services.Method-Children were assessed as part of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent WellBeing. Children (N = 2,065) ranged in age from 8 to 16 years and were assessed at baseline and at 18 and 36 months postbaseline. Caregivers, teachers, and youths provided information about children's problem behaviors, school achievement, and social competence. Children were considered resilient in a domain if they met or exceeded national norms.Results-Thirty-seven percent to 49% of children demonstrated resilience in mental health, academic, or social domains at any time point. Eleven percent to 14% of children were resilient across domains at any time point, and only 14% to 22% of children were consistently resilient within a given domain across all three time points.Conclusions-Resilience, as defined by competence in mental health, academic, and social domains, was demonstrated by relatively few children. The conditions that promote stable resilience may be difficult to achieve among allegedly maltreated children who are likely to face residential and caretaker instability. Future research should identify processes that promote stability in resilience over time.Keywords child abuse; maltreatment; resilience; National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being Many children who are physically, sexually, or psychologically abused, or neglected experience mental health problems and difficulties with school and social relationships (Cicchetti and Manly, 2001;Cicchetti and Toth, 1995). However, not all children do so. These resilient children master normative developmental tasks in the face of maltreatment and associated risks, including family and neighborhood poverty, interparental violence, and parent psychopathology (Jaffee, 2005;Luthar et al., 2000; Coatsworth, 1995, 1998 NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript ability to function well in the school environment, interact appropriately with peers and adults, and regulate behavior and emotions . Additional tasks of adolescence include forging an independent identity and negotiating romantic relationships. This definition of resilience does not require that youths excel; rather, it requires that at-risk children function at least as well as the average child (Luthar et al., 2000;Robinson, 2000).Many researchers recognize that resilience is a multidimensional and dynamic construct. In practice, however, researchers who study resilience to maltreatment often define resilient children in terms of one criterion: the absence of clinically significant mental health problems. Although this is an important marker of positive functioning, children who lack significant mental health problems may be struggling in other arenas (Kaufman et al., 1994). Moreover, with few exceptions (Cicchetti and Rogosch, 1997;Farber and Egeland, 1987;Herrenkohl et al., 1994), m...

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“…Most of the reliability research among adolescents and young adults has found self-reported sexual behavior to be only moderately reliable (mean reliability in each study = .51 -.66; Boekeloo, Schamus, Simmens, & Cheng, 1998;Brener, Collins, Kann, Warren, & Williams, 1995;Brener et al, 2002;Hearn, O'Sullivan, & Dudley, 2003), with only a single study finding high levels of reliability among youths (mean reliability = .92, Durant & Carey, 2002). The low reliability found in past research is partly due to methodological limitations such as non-overlapping assessment periods (e.g., Boekeloo et al, 1998).…”

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“…The low reliability found in past research is partly due to methodological limitations such as non-overlapping assessment periods (e.g., Boekeloo et al, 1998). The extant literature on adolescents is also limited by the inclusion of only a small number of sexual items, most of which are general in scope (e.g., whether youths ever had sex; Brener et al, 2002;Flisher, Evans, Muller, & Lombard, 2004). As such, more research is needed to examine a broad range of specific sexual behaviors (e.g., oral and anal sex, condom use during specific behaviors, and insertive versus receptive behaviors).…”

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confidence: 99%

Test–Retest Reliability of Self-Reported Sexual Behavior, Sexual Orientation, and Psychosexual Milestones Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths

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Despite the importance of reliable self-reported sexual information for research on sexuality and sexual health, research has not examined reliability of information provided by gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) youths. Test-retest reliability of self-reported sexual behaviors, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and psychosexual developmental milestones was examined among an ethnically diverse sample of 64 self-identified GLB youths. Two face-to-face interviews were conducted approximately two weeks apart using the Sexual Risk Behavior Assessment Schedule for Homosexual Youths (SERBAS-Y-HM). Overall, the mean of the test-retest reliability coefficients was substantial for 6 of the 7 domains: lifetime sexual behaviors (M = .89), sexual behavior in the past 3 months (M = .96), unprotected sexual behavior in the past 3 months (M = .93), sexual identity (κ = .89), sexual orientation (M = .82), and ages of various psychosexual developmental milestones (M = .77). Inconsistent reliability was found for reports of sexual behaviors while using substances. A small number of gender differences emerged, with lower reliability among female youths in the lifetime number of same-sex partners. The overall findings suggest that a wide range of self-reported sexual information can be reliably assessed among GLB youths by means of interviewer-administered questionnaires, such as the SERBAS-Y-HM.

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Reliability of the 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Questionnaire

Cited by 909 publications

References 30 publications

How well protected are sexually active 15-year olds? Cross-national patterns in condom and contraceptive pill use 2002–2006

How well protected are sexually active 15-year olds? Cross-national patterns in condom and contraceptive pill use 2002–2006

Social, Emotional, and Academic Competence Among Children Who Have Had Contact With Child Protective Services: Prevalence and Stability Estimates

Test–Retest Reliability of Self-Reported Sexual Behavior, Sexual Orientation, and Psychosexual Milestones Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths

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