Assessing Reasons for School Non-attendance
@article{Havik2015AssessingRF, title={Assessing Reasons for School Non-attendance}, author={Trude Havik and E. Bru and S. K. Ertesv{\aa}g}, journal={Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research}, year={2015}, volume={59}, pages={316 - 336} }
The aim of the present study is to assess reasons for school non-attendance including somatic symptoms, subjective health complaints, truancy, and school refusal and to investigate the relationship of these with gender, grade, and self-reported special educational needs. The study is based on a self-reported questionnaire distributed to students recruited from seven municipalities in Norway. The total sample included 5,465 students in the sixth to tenth grades. The measurement model yielded… CONTINUE READING
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