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The Trojan Lifetime Champions Health Survey: Development, Validity, and Reliability.
- Source :
- Journal of Athletic Training (Allen Press); Apr2015, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p407-418, 12p, 1 Diagram, 8 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Context: Self-report questionnaires are an important method of evaluating lifespan health, exercise, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) outcomes among elite, competitive athletes. Few instruments, however, have undergone formal characterization of their psychometric properties within this population. Objective: To evaluate the validity and reliability of a novel health and exercise questionnaire, the Trojan Lifetime Champions (TLC) Health Survey. Design: Descriptive laboratory study. Setting: A large National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I university. Patients or Other Participants: A total of 63 university alumni (age range, 24 to 84 years), including former varsity collegiate athletes and a control group of nonathletes. Intervention(s): Participants completed the TLC Health Survey twice at a mean interval of 23 days with randomization to the paper or electronic version of the instrument. Main Outcome Measure(s): Content validity, feasibility of administration, test-retest reliability, parallel-form reliability between paper and electronic forms, and estimates of systematic and typical error versus differences of clinical interest were assessed across a broad range of health, exercise, and HRQL measures. Results: Correlation coefficients, including intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) for continuous variables and K agreement statistics for ordinal variables, for test-retest reliability averaged 0.86, 0.90, 0.80, and 0.74 for HRQL, lifetime health, recent health, and exercise variables, respectively. Correlation coefficients, again ICCs and K, for parallel-form reliability (ie, equivalence) between paper and electronic versions averaged 0.90, 0.85, 0.85, and 0.81 for HRQL, lifetime health, recent health, and exercise variables, respectively. Typical measurement error was less than the a priori thresholds of clinical interest, and we found minimal evidence of systematic testretest error. We found strong evidence of content validity, convergent construct validity with the Short-Form 12 Version 2 HRQL instrument, and feasibility of administration in an elite, competitive athletic population. Conclusions: These data suggest that the TLC Health Survey is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing lifetime and recent health, exercise, and HRQL, among elite competitive athletes. Generalizability of the instrument may be enhanced by additional, larger-scale studies in diverse populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- QUALITY of life
EXERCISE
CHI-squared test
COLLEGE athletes
CONFIDENCE intervals
EXERCISE physiology
EXPERIMENTAL design
HEALTH attitudes
HEALTH behavior
HEALTH status indicators
RESEARCH methodology
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH evaluation
SELF-evaluation
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
STATISTICS
T-test (Statistics)
STATISTICAL reliability
CONTINUING education units
INTER-observer reliability
MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
ELITE athletes
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ONE-way analysis of variance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10626050
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Athletic Training (Allen Press)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 108515073
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-50.2.10