ASSESSMENT MODE AND VALIDITY OF SELF-REPORTS IN CHILDREN

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Self-reports are the most commonly used strategy for assessing health-related behaviors in clinical and research settings (Rand et al, 1990). Researchers and health care providers routinely rely on patient reports of health-related behaviors, including health promoting (e.g., exercise, diet, medication adherence) and health-jeopardizing (e.g., smoking, recreational drug use, frequent sexual partners) behaviors. This patient-provided information is used to make important decisions about the patients subsequent health care (e.g., when to change a medication that seems not to be working) and can impact broader health policy (e.g. drug-dosing recommendations). For children, parents are typically the preferred source of information about children's health care (Fendrich et al, 1999).