About the Measure
Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | This is a unidimensional measure |
Description | A short, global measure of child and adolescent subjective health and wellbeing derived from KIDSCREEN-52, which can be filled out by the child's parent. |
Example | Thinking about the last week… has your child felt fit and well? |
Link | http://www.kidscreen.org/english/questionnaires/kidscreen-10-index/ |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 10 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Parent |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 5 |
Age | 8-18 |
Cost single purchase | 50 euros |
Cost per child | - |
Psychometric details
UK norms | Yes |
Cronbach's α | .78 |
Test retest | 2 weeks, r= .67 |
Inter-rater reliability | Child self-report, r= .54 |
EFA | Not reported |
CFA | Single-dimension Rasch Analysis (Partial Credit Model) |
Criterion validity | KIDSCREEN-52, r= .91 |
Construct validity | Child rated Health Behaviours in School Children (HBSC) psychosomatic complaints scale, r= -.36 |
Concurrent validity | Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, r= .30; Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent Edition satisfaction subscale, r= .43; Youth Quality of Life Instrument-Surveillance Version perception subscale, r= .40; Child Health Questionnaire parent version, r= [.19,.55] |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M., Rajmil, L., Herdman, M., Auquier, P., Bruil, J., ... Mazur, J. (2010). Reliability, construct and criterion validity of the KIDSCREEN-10 score: a short measure for children and adolescents’ well-being and health-related quality of life. Quality of Life Research, 19(10), 1487-1500. doi:10.1007/s11136-010-9706-5 |