Web-Based Assessment of Mental Well-Being in Early Adolescence: A Reliability Study

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 18; no. 6; p. e138
• Main Authors: Hamann, Christoph, Schultze-Lutter, Frauke, Tarokh, Leila
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor 15.06.2016; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Anxiety; Anxiety - diagnosis; Behavior change; Child; Child development; Children & youth; Depression - diagnosis; Electronic publishing; Evaluation; Female; Humans; Internet; Male; Mental depression; Mental Health; Psychology, Adolescent - methods; Questionnaires; Reliability; Reproducibility of Results; Researchers; Short Paper; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teenagers; Well being; early adolescence; online assessment; reliability

The ever-increasing use of the Internet among adolescents represents an emerging opportunity for researchers to gain access to larger samples, which can be queried over several years longitudinally. Among adolescents, young adolescents (ages 11 to 13 years) are of particular interest to clinicians a...