A review of measurement tools for child wellbeing

Cho, Esther Yin-Nei; Yu, Fuk-yuen

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105576

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“…There is a need to monitor the wellbeing of children using systematic tools [ 69 , 73 ]. The EmpowerKids tool offers one way of assessing the subjective wellbeing of children.…”

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Promoting the health and wellbeing of children: A feasibility study of a digital tool among professionals

Skogberg

Mackiewicz²,

Mänd

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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The foundations of children’s health and wellbeing are laid in early childhood. A gamified app (EmpowerKids tool) was designed to support professionals to have discussions with 6- to 12-year-olds from low-income families about their health and wellbeing. The aim of this feasibility study was to evaluate the usability and acceptability of the tool from the perspective of professionals in social, health and education settings. The study was conducted using a one-group post-test-only design. The usability data were collected using System Usability Scale and the acceptability data were collected using an open-ended questionnaire distributed to professionals (n = 24) in Estonia, Finland and Latvia. The data were collected during two phases. The tool was modified further on the basis of the results. The total usability scores were 82/100 (first testing) and 84/100 (second testing), indicating excellent usability. The answers related to acceptability were divided into four categories: suitability for the context; satisfaction and quality; attractiveness; modification needs. The professionals perceived that the tool helped them to build an overall picture of a child’s health and wellbeing, and to gain information about the child’s individual needs. The requirements for modification detected during the first testing were mostly related to difficulties with textual expressions and graphics. No major modification requirements were expressed during the second testing. The tool is considered feasible and may be used by professionals from different settings to support children’s health and wellbeing. Further studies are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the tool from the perspective of child outcomes.

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“…There is a need to monitor the wellbeing of children using systematic tools [ 69 , 73 ]. The EmpowerKids tool offers one way of assessing the subjective wellbeing of children.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting the health and wellbeing of children: A feasibility study of a digital tool among professionals

Skogberg

Mackiewicz²,

Mänd

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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“…Without an ability to generate accurate data sets on health and personal desires, resource distribution may be skewed to direct funding to less valuable interventions and result in worse outcomes for children, or specific populations of children. 8 Primarily, questionnaires that focus on current disabilities and pain often neglect other factors that matter to children like opportunities, purpose, connectedness and joy. While health-centric approaches may be appropriate in adult contexts where individuals have had the opportunity to grow and realise their opportunities, whether these questionnaires are sufficient in encapsulating the future opportunities and capacities of children is doubtful.…”

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“…8 In this sense, these PROMs are a more human approach to measurement, valuing the qualitative ideas and expectations of each person, rather than expecting individual desires and values to be homogenous. 8 This relies on a narrative approach to assessment, valuing the individual's unique experiences. This approach also facilitates a better respect for individual preferences through eliciting values and capabilities young people themselves uphold.…”

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“…Common emerging PROMs seek to assess health status while concurrently appreciating the wellbeing and social connectedness of the child. These tools focus on concepts that are relevant to prized paediatric life qualities 8 . In this sense, these PROMs are a more human approach to measurement, valuing the qualitative ideas and expectations of each person, rather than expecting individual desires and values to be homogenous 8 .…”

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Towards a broader concept of wellbeing in evaluating paediatric quality of life

Ryan

Preisz

2021

J Paediatrics Child Health

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Paediatric health‐care professionals have a primary duty to promote the best interests of their patients. This is reiterated in article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and is predicated on promoting children's health and wellbeing. However, there is ambiguity over what standard applies when evaluating whether a paediatric health‐care decision supports good outcomes. Values like ‘best interests’, ‘doing no harm’ or ‘quality of life’ may be indeterminate or vague and clinicians may have difficulty in conceptualising what exactly constitutes ‘a good life’ for children. This uncertainty leads to the question: how do we best evaluate paediatric health decisions and outcomes? Patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) are questionnaires that aim to achieve this by attaining data on a patient's quality of life and wellbeing. While PROMs originated with adult cohorts, they have since been applied to paediatric populations. Children are vulnerable due to their interdependency; and this raises ethical tensions regarding the potential benefits of such data, respect for autonomy and assent/consent of the individual child in clinical settings. These inherent tensions should be balanced by realising a collective good for children. PROMs should be a robust data collection source that facilitates substantive justice, both procedurally and in distributing limited health resources via accurate quality‐adjusted life‐years generation. This article aims to (i) overview the traditional and emerging paediatric PROMs; (ii) outline the tensions of using PROMS for children in a clinical setting and (iii) analyse the ability of traditional and emerging PROMs to promote justice in paediatric resource allocation.

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“…Drawing from literature reviews, the well-being of children has been operationalized as “happiness” in a number of studies [ 24 , 25 ]. The positive affect of happiness is one of the first emotions recognized by children and can be distinguished by children from the age of 5 [ 26 , 27 ].…”

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How I Feel About My School—Adaptation and Validation of an Educational Well-Being Measure among Young Children in Sweden

Riad

Westling

Siljehag

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The well-being of children has received increasing attention in recent years. Nevertheless, we lack adequate brief self-report tools that enable us to consider young children’s well-being in policy evaluations and educational research. This study describes the adaptation and first validation of the Swedish version of How I Feel About My School (HIFAMS), a subjective well-being questionnaire suitable for children aged 4 to 12 years, which was originally developed in the United Kingdom (UK). Descriptive statistics with analysis of psychometric properties and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) are based on the perceived well-being of 228 children in preschool and school aged 5 to 8 years old. The CFA endorsed a good fit to a one-factor model, and the scale showed moderate internal consistency (rα = 0.63). The results are largely in line with the findings of the original HIFAMS. We conclude that the Swedish version can be applied in early preschool/school settings and could provide first-hand information about children’s well-being from the first years of education until elementary school grades. Practitioners in early education settings might benefit from HIFAMS assessments when seeking to understand children’s current well-being to provide support to children with special educational needs or children at risk for mental health issues. Researchers could use the HIFAMS to standardize child well-being evaluations in policy evaluations and interventional studies.

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A review of measurement tools for child wellbeing

Cited by 29 publications

References 196 publications

Promoting the health and wellbeing of children: A feasibility study of a digital tool among professionals

Promoting the health and wellbeing of children: A feasibility study of a digital tool among professionals

Towards a broader concept of wellbeing in evaluating paediatric quality of life

How I Feel About My School—Adaptation and Validation of an Educational Well-Being Measure among Young Children in Sweden

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