title: The inventory of parent/caregiver responses to the children's pain experience (IRPEDNA): development and preliminary validation.
abstract: This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of a self-administered instrument designed to measure parents/caregivers' responses to children's pain episodes. For empirical validation purposes, a 60-item inventory was answered by 401 adults whose children's ages ranged from 6 to 16 years (mean=10.44, and SD=2.25 years). Factor structure and item analyses led to a 37 item inventory with three interrelated scales, namely: solicitousness (n=15 items), discouragement (n=10 items), and promotion of well-behaviors and coping (n=12 items). The three scales had good internal consistency, with coefficient alphas of 0.87, 0.83 and 0.87, respectively; they also showed good criterion-related validity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Rovira i Virgili University, 43007 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Huguet
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miró
authors.forename: Rubén
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nieto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012008:Recurrence; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards