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Interest in and use of the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment's Health History Inventories (HHI) has been intensive despite the unavailability of psychometric data estimating its stability. This article reports the results of a longitudinal study designed to provide data on the stability of the HHI over a 4-year period. The children studied were drawn from middle- and lower-class Anglo, black, and Mexican American families. Variance in scores is observed between the two administrations of HHI; means change somewhat, and test-retest correlations generally are moderate. Although some variance may be attributable to health incidents that occurred between the two administrations, some variance is also attributable to respondent inconsistency as noted on questions that should receive the same answer across administrations. Despite this variation, at-risk and not-at-risk classifications made from each HHI are generally stable.

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Stability of the Sompa's Health History Inventory

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