. Sedigheh Khanjari; . Fereshteh Javaheri Tehrani; . Shabnam Shariat Panahi; . Ahmad Saidee
Volume 11, Issue 2 , February 2021, , Pages 1-8
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Cancer, as a life‑threatening disease in children, poses several challenges forparents. It is necessary to have a tool that can comprehensively examine the stressful events ...
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BACKGROUND: Cancer, as a life‑threatening disease in children, poses several challenges forparents. It is necessary to have a tool that can comprehensively examine the stressful events forparents of children with cancer. The aim this present study was done with the aim of study thePersian version of pediatric inventory for parents (PIP).MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was a conducted based on methodological researchdesign. Four hundred and fifteen parents of children with cancer referring to Alia Asghar Children’sHospital and Children’s Medical Centre in Tehran answered the Persian version of PIP questionnairein 2019. a confirmatory factor analysis was carried out using LISREL (software version 8.8) to testthe construct validity of PIP. The two tools of parental stress scale and state‑trait anxiety inventory(STAI‑Y) were used for concurrent validity purposes.RESULTS: The results showed that, the overall score of the questionnaire was higher than the averageand related to emotional distress. The internal correlation coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha) in both partsof the PIP was between 0.808 and 0.957 and acceptable. Concurrent validity analysis indicatedpositive and significant correlation of this tool in the difficulty section of the scale with both ParentalStress Scale and STAI‑Y. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the factor loadsof all items except three items in the frequency section were more than 0.3 and were appropriate.CONCLUSION: The Persian version of PIP can be available to health and family experts as a validand reliable tool to assess stressful events of parents of children with cancer.
