Kilifi Health Risk Behavior Questionnaire (Ssewanyana et al., 2018)

Risk Behaviours relating to health outcomes in children and adolescents, including one sexual behaviour subscale; 60 Items / Sexual behavior subscale; Ages 10-19

Populations: Children, Adolescents
Age ranges: 10-19
Languages: Swahili, English
Countries: Kenya

Items

The items were mainly borrowed (with some modification to suit context) from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). No modifications were reported to the sexual behaviour subscale.

Sexual Behaviour subscale

Ever had sexual intercourse
Had first sexual intercourse when 13 years old or less
Had 3 or more lifetime sexual partners
Had 3 or more sexual partners during the past 3 months.
Did not use any method for preventing pregnancy during their last sexual intercourse

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Ssewanyana, D., Van Baar, A., Newton, C. R., & Abubakar, A. (2018). A contextually relevant approach to assessing health risk behavior in a rural sub-Saharan Africa setting: The Kilifi health risk behavior questionnaire. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 774. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5710-4

Scoring breakdown

Measure development

Significant design input from young people
Cognitive interviews with young people
Expert input

Validity

Green: Face validity
Unknown: Convergent validity
Unknown: Construct validity

Reliability

Unknown: Internal consistency
Green: Test-retest

Ease of use

Green: Readability

Definitions

Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.

Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.

Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.

Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.

Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).

Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.

Key

Green: Meets validation criteria
Red: Does not meet validation criteria
Unknown: Evidence not available