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Human health sciences : Public health, health care sciences & services
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52278
Item response theory and differential test functioning analysis of the HBSC-Symptom-Checklist across 46 countries
English
Heinz, Andreas mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC) >]
Sischka, Philipp mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
Catunda, Carolina mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC) >]
Cosma, Alina []
García-Moya, Irene []
Lyyra, Nelli []
Kaman, Anne []
Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike []
Pickett, William []
29-Sep-2022
BMC Medical Research Methodology
22
253
Yes
International
[en] Differential item functioning ; Health behaviour in school‑aged children ; Psychosomatic health complaints ; Measurement invariance ; Self‑reported health complaints, ; HBSC symptom checklist ; Subjective health complaints ; Cross-national ; Adolescents
[en] Background
The Symptom Checklist (SCL) developed by the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is a non-clinical measure of psychosomatic complaints (e.g., headache and feeling low) that has been used in numerous studies. Several studies have investigated the psychometric characteristics of this scale; however, some psychometric properties remain unclear, among them especially a) dimensionality, b) adequacy of the Graded Response Model (GRM), and c) measurement invariance across countries.
Methods
Data from 229,906 adolescents aged 11, 13 and 15 from 46 countries that participated in the 2018 HBSC survey were analyzed. Adolescents were selected using representative sampling and surveyed by questionnaire in the classroom. Dimensionality was investigated using exploratory graph analysis. In addition, we investigated whether the GRM provided an adequate description of the data. Reliability over the latent variable continuum and differential test functioning across countries were also examined.
Results
Exploratory graph analyses showed that SCL can be considered as one-dimensional in 16 countries. However, a comparison of the unidimensional with a post-hoc bifactor GRM showed that deviation from a hypothesized one-dimensional structure was negligible in most countries. Multigroup invariance analyses supported configural and metric invariance, but not scalar invariance across 32 countries. Alignment analysis showed non-invariance especially for the items irritability, feeling nervous/bad temper and feeling low.
Conclusion
HBSC-SCL appears to represent a consistent and reliable unidimensional instrument across most countries. This bodes well for population health analyses that rely on this scale as an early indicator of mental health status.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52278
10.1186/s12874-022-01698-3
https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-022-01698-3

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