Types of Harassment

Abstract

The purpose of this survey was to allow for assessing the relationship between multiple types of harassment and health-related outcomes. These survey items were developed for the EAT 2010 survey of secondary school students ages 11-18 years. When a draft of the EAT 2010 survey was complete, the measures were pretested by 56 adolescents to examine their understandability and relevance. This draft survey was additionally reviewed by a team of experts in the domains of nutrition, physical activity, adolescent development, body image, family relations, and urban design. Following revisions based on initial pretesting and feedback from the expert reviewers, the survey was further pilot tested with a different sample of 129 middle school and high school students to examine the test-retest reliability of measures over a one-week period and the internal consistency of scales.(Author Abstract).