Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ARTICLESThe Confluence of Mental, Physical, Social, and Academic Difficulties in Middle Childhood. II: Developing the MacArthur Health and Behavior Questionnaire
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MacArthur Health and Behavior Questionnaire
The HBQ is a parent- and teacher-completed instrument addressing four components of health. The measure yields dimensional ratings of 4- to 8-year-old children's functioning in the domains of (1) emotional and behavioral symptoms, (2) physical health, (3) social adaptation, and (4) school adaptation. The four health domains comprised 18 preliminary subscales covering (1) Externalizing Symptoms, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms, Internalizing Symptoms, Functional
RESULTS
Both studies 1 and 2 were designed in part to evaluate the psychometric properties of the HBQ. While the studies shared this common purpose, each also provided a distinct assessment strategy and research design, allowing different questions to be addressed by the different studies. Although analyzed separately, their results are presented together as a means of highlighting both the homologies and differences in study-specific findings.
Table 1 displays demographic characteristics for the two
DISCUSSION
The two studies reported here yielded three principal findings from data derived from the HBQ. First, the HBQ was shown to be a reliable multidimensional outcome instrument providing measures of mental health, physical health, and social and academic functioning in 4- to 8-year-old children from diverse geographic areas. Test-retest reliabilities were strong over a 7- to 10-day period for both maternal and teacher reports. Furthermore, while many of the expected developmental trends were found
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The research on which this paper was based was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Psychopathology and Development and by NIMH grant R01-MH44340. The MacArthur Assessment Battery Working Group comprises Jennifer C. Ablow, Abbey Alkon, Jeffrey M. Armstrong, W. Thomas Boyce, Marilyn J. Essex, Lauren H. Goldstein, Richard Harrington, Helena C. Kraemer, David J. Kupfer, Jeffrey R. Measelle, Charles A. Nelson, Jodi Quas, Nancy A. Smider, and Laurence Steinberg.