TY - JOUR T1 - The reliability of the Minimum European Health Module. JF - Int J Public Health Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cox, Bianca A1 - Herman Van Oyen A1 - Cambois, Emmanuelle A1 - Jagger, Carol A1 - le Roy, Sophie A1 - Robine, Jean-Marie A1 - Romieu, Isabelle KW - ADOLESCENT KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Attitude to Health KW - Belgium KW - Chronic disease KW - Disability Evaluation KW - Europe KW - Female KW - Health Status Indicators KW - health surveys KW - Humans KW - Interviews as Topic KW - Male KW - middle aged KW - Reproducibility of Results KW - Young adult AB -

OBJECTIVES: The Minimum European Health Module (MEHM) consists of 3 global questions concerning 3 health domains: self-perceived health, chronic conditions and long-term activity limitation. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the reliability of the MEHM.

METHODS: Participants of the Belgian Food Consumption Survey were interviewed twice: 170 individuals were selected for the MEHM reliability evaluation. For each of the 3 questions Pearson and Kappa coefficients were estimated. Analyses were stratified by gender, age, education, language and time between the interviews.

RESULTS: The Pearson correlations are between 0.73 and 0.81. The Kappa estimates are good or excellent: 0.74 (self-perceived health), 0.77 (chronic conditions) and 0.68 (activity limitation). Also stratified analyses indicated in general an acceptable reliability.

CONCLUSION: The MEHM has an acceptable reliability.

VL - 54 CP - 2 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19183846?dopt=Abstract M3 - 10.1007/s00038-009-7104-y ER -