%0 Journal Article
%T Development and psychometric properties of the health-risk behavior inventory for Chinese adolescents
%A Mengcheng Wang
%A Jinyao Yi
%A Lin Cai
%A Muli Hu
%A Xiongzhao Zhu
%A Shuqiao Yao
%A Randy P. Auerbach
%J BMC Medical Research Methodology
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2288-12-94
%X Adolescents, ages 14¨C19£¿years (n£¿=£¿6,633), were recruited from high schools across 10 cities in mainland China. In addition, a clinical sample, which included 326 adolescents meeting DSM-IV criteria for Conduct Disorder, was used to evaluate predictive validity of the HBICA. Psychometric properties including internal consistency (Cronbach¡¯s alpha), test-retest reliability, convergent validity, and predictive validity were analyzed.Based upon item analysis and exploratory factor analysis, we retained 33 items, and 5 factors explained 51.75% of the total variance: Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviors (SS), Aggression and Violence (AV), Rule Breaking (RB), Substance Use (SU), and Unprotected Sex (US). Cronbach¡¯s alphas were good, from 0.77 (RB) to 0.86 (US) for boys, and from 0.74 (SD) to 0.83(SS) for girls. The 8£¿weeks test¨Cretest reliabilities were moderate, ranged from 0.66 (AV) to 0.76 (SD). External validities was strong, with Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 was 0.35 (p£¿<£¿0.01), and with aggressive behavior and rule-breaking behavior subscales of the Youth Self Report were 0.54 (p£¿<£¿0.01) and 0.68 (p£¿<£¿0.01), respectively. Predictive validity analysis also provided enough discriminantity, which can distinguish high risky individual effectively (cohen¡¯ d£¿=£¿0.79 ¨C 2.96).These results provide initial support for the reliability and validity of the Health-Risk Behavior Inventory for Chinese Adolescents (HBICA) as a comprehensive and developmentally appropriate assessment instrument for risk behaviors in Chinese adolescents.
%K Adolescent
%K Health-Risk behavior
%K Reliability
%K Validity
%U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/94/abstract