Brief report: development of the inflammatory bowel disease family responsibility questionnaire.
OBJECTIVE
To present psychometric data on youth and parent versions of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Family Responsibility Questionnaire (IBD-FRQ), a measure of family involvement in IBD management.


METHODS
Fifty-eight adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), along with 55 mothers and 26 fathers completed the IBD-FRQ, a demographics questionnaire, and a measure of family involvement in decision making in non-IBD domains. Medical information was obtained via chart review.


RESULTS
Support for the internal consistency of the IBD-FRQ was obtained. Evidence of validity was documented via moderate to high intercorrelations among reporters. Youth involvement increased with youth age, while maternal and paternal involvement decreased with youth age. Across all reporters, maternal involvement was higher than paternal involvement.


CONCLUSIONS
Preliminary analyses offer support for the measure's reliability and validity. The measure shows promise as a means of assessing family involvement in IBD condition management; however, further validation studies are needed.
Greenley
Rachel Neff
RN
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. RGreenle@mcw.edu
Doughty
Alyssa
A
Stephens
Mike
M
Kugathasan
Subra
S
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D003657:Decision Making; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires