StimQ Cognitive Home Environment Questionnaire
The StimQ cognitive home environment questionnaire is a revised and revalidated StimQ instrument that was developed by pediatricians and developmental psychologists at NYU Langone to measure a family’s cognitive home environment. Available free of charge in English and Spanish, the questionnaire is answered in interview format by parents of children between 5 and 72 months in these age categories:
- infants ages 5 to 12 months: English version, Spanish version
- toddlers ages 12 to 36 months: English version, Spanish version
- preschoolers ages 36 to 72 months: English version, Spanish version
StimQ has four subscales:
- reading (READ)
- parental involvement in developmental advance (PIDA)
- parental verbal responsivity (PVR)
- availability of learning materials (ALM)
The questionnaire requires 15 to 20 minutes to administer and 2 to 3 minutes to score.
Internal consistency on the StimQ forms has been measured, with Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.86 to 0.93.
Predictive and concurrent validity of StimQ have been measured by examining associations with cognition, language, and social–emotional outcomes at 36 months. StimQ-I and StimQ-T were significantly related to 36-month outcomes. Correlations for StimQ-I ranged from 0.23 to 0.24, and for StimQ-T from 0.30 to 0.40. In addition, StimQ-P was significantly related to concurrent language and social–emotional outcomes, with correlations ranging from 0.17 to 0.30.
We have recently updated the StimQ (known as the StimQ2) to enhance ease of use. In particular, the updated instrument allows for utilization of individual components (known as subdimensions) within each of the subscales.
If you are interested in using the StimQ in your research or practice: please contact Caroline Raak at caroline.raak@nyulangone.org for scoring and administration manuals. If your use of the StimQ requires translation to a language other than English or Spanish, please see our translation guidelines.
If you have additional questions or comments about the StimQ cognitive home environment questionnaire, contact Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD, at alan.mendelsohn@nyulangone.org or Caitlin Canfield at caitlin.canfield@nyulangone.org.
Learn more about our studies of the StimQ questionnaire.
If you have additional questions or comments about the StimQ cognitive home environment questionnaire, contact Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD, at alan.mendelsohn@nyulangone.org or Caitlin Canfield at caitlin.canfield@nyulangone.org.
Learn more about our studies of the StimQ questionnaire.
