Youth Services Survey (YSS)
Overview
- Purpose
- Measure the perceptions of caregivers of children who receive mental health services
- Respondent
- Person with a Disability
- Administration Method
- Survey
- Administration Modes
- Phone
- Developer
- Mental Health Statistical Improvement Project (MHSIP)
- Item Count
- 38
- Population
- Mental Health Challenges
Instrument Citation(s)
Youth Services Survey. http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/formsandpubs/MHCCY/InfoNotice12-02Enclosure4.pdf 
Instrument Domains
| Domain | Number of Items |
|---|---|
| Choice and Control | 4 |
| Choice of services and supports | 1 |
| Personal choices and goals | 2 |
| Self-direction | 1 |
| Personal freedoms and dignity of risk | 0 |
| Community Inclusion | 3 |
| Meaningful activity | 1 |
| Social connectedness and relationships | 2 |
| Employment | 0 |
| Resources and settings to facilitate inclusion | 0 |
| Transportation | 0 |
| Holistic Health and Functioning | 1 |
| Individual health and functioning | 1 |
| Health promotion and prevention | 0 |
| Person-Centered Planning and Coordination | 2 |
| Person-centered planning | 2 |
| Assessment | 0 |
| Coordination | 0 |
| Service Delivery and Effectiveness | 6 |
| Delivery | 4 |
| Person's needs met and goals realized | 2 |
| Workforce | 4 |
| Culturally competent | 2 |
| Person-centered approach to services | 2 |
| Adequately compensated with benefits | 0 |
| Demonstrated competencies when appropriate | 0 |
| Safety of and respect for the worker | 0 |
| Staff Turnover | 0 |
| Sufficient workforce numbers dispersion and availability | 0 |
| Workforce engagement and participation | 0 |
| Caregiver Support | 0 |
| Access to resources | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support involvement | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support wellbeing | 0 |
| Training and skill-building | 0 |
| Consumer Leadership in System Development | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful caregiver involvement | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| System supports meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| Equity | 0 |
| Availability | 0 |
| Equitable access and resource allocation | 0 |
| Transparency and consistency | 0 |
| Fluctuation of Need | 0 |
| Human and Legal Rights | 0 |
| Freedom from abuse and neglect | 0 |
| Informed decision-making | 0 |
| Optimizing the preservation of legal and human rights | 0 |
| Privacy | 0 |
| Supporting individuals in exercising their human and legal rights | 0 |
| Level of Caregiver Well-Being | 0 |
| System Performance and Accountability | 0 |
| Data management and use | 0 |
| Evidence-based practice | 0 |
| Financing and service delivery structures | 0 |
Psychometric Citation
Shafer, A.B., Temple, J.M. (2013). Factor structure of the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP) family and youth satisfaction surveys. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. 40(3), 306–316.
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Mean=14.5 years
- Sample: Age Group
Under 18 Years
- Sample: Countries/State
Texas
- Sample: Disability Type
Mental Health Challenges
- Sample: Gender (%male)
61%
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
50% White;
32% Hispanic;
17% Black;
2% other- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Random sampling
- Sample: Size
1,718
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
Cronbach's Alpha: Outcomes (α= .83);
Satisfaction(α = .91);
Cultural sensitivity(α = .86);
Participation (α=.79);
Access (α= .72)- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
Principal components and varimax rotation resulted in five factors that accounted for 70% of the variance.
Convergent validity: average correlation across all the parent and child scale scores was r=.62
- Study design
- Cross-sectional