Evidence That School-Age Children Can Self-Report on Their Health

Riley, Anne W.

doi:10.1367/a03-178r.1

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Evidence That School-Age Children Can Self-Report on Their Health

Riley, Anne W.·2004·Ambulatory Pediatrics

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The value of obtaining children's reports about their health from questionnaires is a topic of considerable debate in clinical pediatrics and child health research. Evidence from the following areas can inform the debate: 1) studies of parent-child agreement or concordance about the child's health state, 2) basic research on the development of children's cognitive abilities, 3) cognitive interviewing studies of children's abilities to respond to questionnaires and of influences on their responses, 4) psychometric studies of child-report questionnaires, and 5) longitudinal research on the value of children's reports. This review makes a case for the utility of child rather than parent-proxy reports for many, though not all, applications. The review summarizes evidence in terms of the value and limitations of child questionnaire reports. Research demonstrates adequate understanding and reliability and validity of child reports of their health even at age 6, which increases after age 7 in general populations. The reliability of reports by children 8-11 years old is quite good on health questionnaires developed especially for this age group. Children's personal reports provide a viable means of monitoring internal experiences of health and distress during childhood and adolescence, which can enhance understanding about trajectories of health and development of illnesses.

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Authors: Riley, A. W.
Affiliations: Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author: Riley, Anne W.
Venue: Ambulatory Pediatrics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2004-07
Volume: 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 371-376
ISSN: 1530-1567 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1367/a03-178r.1
OpenAlex: W2155761042
Cited by: 595
References: 67
Citations by year: 2026: 33 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 36 · 2012: 25
FWCI: 9.14
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Ambulatory Pediatrics (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Children's Rights and Participation
Keywords: child self-report, Child Health Questionnaire, parent-child agreement, cognitive interviewing, child cognitive development, psychometric validity, child distress, proxy reporting
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Child, Health Status, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, Schools, Self Care, Reproducibility of Results, Self-Examination

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