Original articleReliability of the 2005 Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey
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Sample
During the spring of 2005, a convenience sample of 232 middle school students in grades seven and eight were selected from two public school districts in this Midwestern state. Schools were selected to participate in the study based on previous work with the authors in curriculum deliberation and program evaluation. Each school was given $250 to assist with the recruitment of students for this study. Of the 402 students selected to participate in the study, 249 (62%) completed the questionnaire
Results
Data were analyzed similarly to Brener et al [5] in the examination of the reliability of the 1999 YRBS questionnaire on high school students. The mean kappa for all items was 62.6%, and the median kappa was 66.5%. Kappas ranged from −2.4% to 83.8% (Table 2). Qualitative values were assigned based on groupings described by Landis and Koch [7]. Results suggest that 75.7% of items can be described as having at least “substantial” reliability (kappa ≥ 61%), and 89.2% of items had at least
Discussion
Approximately 90% of the MSYRBS items had at least “moderate” reliability and nearly 76% of the items had “substantial” reliability in this preliminary study. In addition, no items were determined to display significantly different Time 1 vs. Time 2 prevalence estimates. However, items pertaining to cocaine use, steroid use, and injection drug use displayed poor reliability. A likely explanation for the negative kappa values for the steroid and injection drug items is the inconsistency due to
Acknowledgment
This research was funded by a grant from the Committee for Faculty Research at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
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