Children as young as six years of a...

Children as young as six years of age can understand and accurately report upon their own health, according to a July 20 2004 recents release from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg place of education of Public Health, Baltimore. The application of mind suggests that questionnaires and interviews that ask children about their health directly when they are not with their parents can have many applications.

The researchers reviewed published data forward child report questionnaires and Longitudinal studies that used children's reports. The data's value and Limitations were examined with regard to

* parent-child agreement onward the child's state of health,

* the child's cognitive development

* the child's ability to accord to questionnaires and influence his or her responses

* psychometric studies of child-report questionnaires, and

* for what reason well the children's reports related to to come health in longitudinal research studies.

Based forward their findings, the researchers make knowned assessment tools--Child Health and Illness Profiles, which have the pair a child and an adolescent edition--to measure children's perceptions of their be in possession of health and well-being, as welt as parents' perceptions of their children's health. The children's edition contains an illustrated, 45-item questionnaire designed for children ages six by the and of 11 years and parallels the parents' version. Studies careered previously by the researchers and published in the journal Medical Care ground that the child report form of the questionnaire predicts children's events to come health care needs as well as the parent's version does.

Young Children Capable of Reporting upon Their Own Health (news release, Baltimore: John Hopkins Bloomberg teach of Public Health, July 20 2004) http://wwwjhsphedu/Pres Room/Pres Releases/PR_2 004/Riley_childreport.html (accessed 30 July 2004)

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