title: [The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for parents who have hospitalized children in an intensive care unit].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Anxiety is a normal response in everyday life, when a person has a crisis like to have an ill child, when normality is altered and it could become a mental pathology. The purpose was to obtain the validity and standardization of the STAI (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) for parents who had a hospitalized child in an intensive care unit (ICU).
  
  
  METHODS
  The STAI was applied to a group of 120 mothers and 90 fathers who had a hospitalized child in the ICU in a pediatric hospital. The analysis consisted of the assessment of the structural properties of the test through the construct validity found in the factorial analysis with a varimax rotation by the principal component methods and reliability by the Cronbach's alpha.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adequate factorial burdens were obtained for both state and trait anxiety factors, initially proposed by the authors. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients in each subgroup and in the global were established over 0.83: so the percentiles also were reported. The structural validity was confirmed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this way the inventory and new standards can be used with better reliability in this type of sampling in subsequent and different clinical research condition.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Mental, Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. karmina_rojas@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Karmina Elena
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Rojas-Carrasco
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D055815:Young Adult