Subjective health in adolescence: Comparing the reliability of contemporaneous, retrospective, and proxy reports of overall health.
Adolescence
Measurement error
Reliability
Self-rated health
Subjective health
Journal
Social science research
ISSN: 1096-0317
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0330501
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2021
05 2021
Historique:
received:
08
06
2020
revised:
20
12
2020
accepted:
03
02
2021
entrez:
19
4
2021
pubmed:
20
4
2021
medline:
22
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the most important social science measures of health. Yet its measurement properties remain poorly understood. Most studies ignore the measurement error in SRH despite the bias resulting from even random measurement error. Our goal is to estimate the measurement reliability of SRH in contemporaneous, retrospective, and proxy indicators. We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to estimate the reliability of SRH relative to proxy assessments and respondents' recollections of past health. Even the best indicators - contemporaneous self-reports - have a modest reliability of ~0.6; retrospective and proxy assessments fare much worse, with reliability less than 0.2. Moreover, not correcting for measurement error in SRH leads to a ~20-40% reduction in its correlation with other measures of health. Researchers should be skeptical of analyses that treat these subjective reports as explanatory variables and fail to take account of their substantial measurement error.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33867009
pii: S0049-089X(21)00015-6
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102538
pmc: PMC8056067
mid: NIHMS1674196
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Pagination
102538Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P01 HD031921
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD050924
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : T32 HD007168
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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