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
• Mail

Developer

Mental Health Statistical Improvement Project (MHSIP)

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Population

Mental Health Challenges

Instrument Citation(s)

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