Validity and reliability of the South African health promoting schools monitoring questionnaire

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dc.contributor.authorStruthers, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorWegner, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorde Koker, Petra
dc.contributor.authorLerebo, Wondwossen
dc.contributor.authorBlignaut, Renette
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-07T12:32:06Z
dc.date.available2017-07-07T12:32:06Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractHealth promoting schools, as conceptualised by the World Health Organisation, have been developed in many countries to facilitate the health-education link. In 1994, the concept of health promoting schools was introduced in South Africa. In the process of becoming a health promoting school, it is important for schools to monitor and evaluate changes and developments taking place. The Health Promoting Schools (HPS) Monitoring Questionnaire was developed to obtain opinions of students about their school as a health promoting school. It comprises 138 questions in seven sections: sociodemographic information; General health promotion programmes; health related Skills and knowledge; Policies; Environment; Community-school links; and support Services. This paper reports on the reliability and face validity of the HPS Monitoring Questionnaire. Seven experts reviewed the questionnaire and agreed that it has satisfactory face validity. A test-retest reliability study was conducted with 83 students in three high schools in Cape Town, South Africa. The kappa-coefficients demonstrate mostly fair (j-scores between 0.21 and 0.4) to moderate (j-scores between 0.41 and 0.6) agreement between test-retest General and Environment items; poor (j-scores up to 0.2) agreement between Skills and Community test-retest items, fair agreement between Policies items, and for most of the questions focussing on Services a fair agreement was found. The study is a first effort at providing a tool that may be used to monitor and evaluate students' opinions about changes in health promoting schools. Although the HPS Monitoring Questionnaire has face validity, the results of the reliability testing were inconclusive. Further research is warranted.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationStruthers, P. et al. (2016). Validity and reliability of the South African health promoting schools monitoring questionnaire. Health Promotion International, 32(2): 260-270en_US
dc.identifier.issn0957-4824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3054
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daw074
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.rightsCopyright The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectHealth promoting schoolsen_US
dc.subjectMonitoring questionnaireen_US
dc.subjectReliabilityen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectValidityen_US
dc.titleValidity and reliability of the South African health promoting schools monitoring questionnaireen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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