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School nurse assessment of primary school children: Analysis of data from the school entrant health questionnaire
Author(s) -
Edgecombe Gay A,
Avant Kay C,
Griffin Patrick,
Corneille Karen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-172x.1998.00069.x
Subject(s) - school health , school nurse , griffin , nursing , school nursing , medicine , psychology , child health , health assessment , family medicine , medical education , archaeology , pathology , history
Edgecombe GA, Avant KC, Griffin P, Corneille K. International Journal of Nursing Practice 1998; 4: 40–50 School nurse assessment of primary school children: Analysis of data from the school entrant health questionnaire The School Entrant Health Questionnaire (SEHQ) has been used by the School Nursing Program in Victoria since April, 1997. The SEHQ assists school nurses in developing a health profile of primary grade children and in discriminating between children with problems and children without problems. The SEHQ assesses children in 11 domains: general health, medications, immunisations, dental health, speech/language, hearing, vision, disabilities, general development, behaviour and emotional well‐being, and family stress. The SEHQ was found to be reliable and valid, and to provide an excellent means of distinguishing between students who had problems and needed intervention and those who did not. This paper presents an analysis of data from the first testing of the SEHQ.