Indicators of socioeconomic status for adolescents: the WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey
Indicators of socioeconomic status for adolescents: the WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey
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DOI：
10.1093/her/12.3.385
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发表时间：
1997-09-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Platt, S
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作者：
Currie, CE;Elton, RA;Platt, S
许多用于成年人的社会经济地位指标不适合用于青少年的研究，在一项基于学校的调查中，4079名苏格兰学童使用自我完成问卷，超过20%的11-15奥尔兹无法提供关于父亲职业的实质性回答。相比之下，用于构建家庭富裕量表的指标（包括汽车拥有量、电话拥有量和孩子拥有自己的非共用卧室）的回复率为98%; 92%的孩子回答了一个关于他们每周花钱的问题，研究了父亲职业的传统指标与每个家庭的富裕程度和花钱之间的相互关系，以及他们与一系列健康指标和健康行为测量的关联进行比较，父亲的职业地位和家庭富裕程度中度相关，并显示出与选定的健康测量大致相似的关联模式，尽管也有一些明显的差异。孩子的消费与父亲的职业只有微弱的相关性，并显示出与健康措施的关联模式相当不同，在青少年健康调查中使用多个社会经济地位指标的情况下，有人认为，家庭富裕规模提供了一个有用的和易于应用的额外指标，父亲的职业或社会经济背景的替代措施，其中职业数据不可用。
Many indicators of socioeconomic status used for adults are inappropriate for use in research on adolescents, In a school-based survey of 4079 Scottish schoolchildren using a self-completion questionnaire, over 20% of 11-15 year olds were unable to provide a substantive response on father's occupation. In contrast, indicators derived to construct a family affluence scale, which included car ownership, telephone ownership and the child having their own unshared bedroom, resulted in a 98% response rate; and 92% of children responded to a question on their weekly spending money, The intercorrelations between the conventional indicator of father's occupation and each family affluence and spending money were examined, and their associations with a range of health indicators and health behaviour measures compared, Father's occupational status and family affluence were moderately correlated and showed broadly similar patterns of association with the selected health measures although there were also some distinct differences. Child's spending money was only weakly correlated with father's occupation and showed rather different patterns of association with health measures, A case is made for the use of multiple indicators of socioeconomic status in adolescent health surveys, and it is argued that that the family affluence scale provides a useful and easily applied additional indicator to father's occupation or an alternative measure of socioeconomic background where occupational data are unavailable.