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Sara Casaña-granell

Psychometric properties of the questionnaire on threat perception of chronic illnesses in pediatric patients*

Objetivo: o objetivo do estudo foi avaliar as propriedades psicometricas do Questionario de Percepcao de Doencas Versao Breve em uma amostra de adolescentes com condicoes endocrinas ou pneumologicas cronicas. Analisar a dimensionalidade e reduzir a escala elaborando baremas por sexo e diagnostico medico. Metodo: avaliamos 510 pacientes com idades entre 9 e 16 anos usando o Questionario de Percepcao de Doencas Versao Breve e a Escala Hospitalar de Ansiedade e Depressao. Foram realizados testes de confiabilidade, validade do construto, validade de criterio e comparacao de medias segundo o diagnostico e as variaveis sociodemograficas. As analises de confiabilidade e validade mostraram propried…

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Factor structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in adolescent patients with chronic disease.

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a screening instrument that assesses emotional symptoms in different populations and medical conditions. This study analyzes the psychometric properties and factor structure of the HADS in adolescents with chronic disease and the differences based on their medical condition.The HADS was administered to a sample of 302 adolescents with chronic disease. Exploratory factor analyses were done in a subsample of 100 adolescents, while confirmatory factor analyses were performed in the rest of participants (202) to examine the validity and reliability of the HADS (14 items); an analysis of variance for a single factor was also done to study diffe…

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Cuestionario de adaptación a la diabetes-mellitus tipo I en pediatría: relación con la psicopatología

ABSTRACT Objective: to study the psychometric properties of an adaptive disease response questionnaire for use with Spanish children with type 1 diabetes; to analyse this response in this sample and to observe the relationship between adaptive response and levels of anxiety-depression. Method: a total of 100 patients with type 1 diabetes aged between nine and 16 years (M=12.28, SD=1.78) participated in the study, of which 59% were children. Data was collected in public hospitals via interviews using the Adaptive Disease Response Questionnaire and Anxiety and Depression Scale. The data was analysed using Pearson correlations, multiple hierarchical linear regressions, Student’s t Test for ind…

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Factors associated with stress when caring for a child with a short stature

Short stature (SS) is one of the main diagnoses in Pediatric Endocrinology. SS can have a negative impact on family dynamics, causing stress and psychopathology. Poor adaptation by the family caregiver negatively affects the pedi- atric patient. Our objective was therefore to study the adjustment of the main family caregivers of pediatric patients with SS, analyzing the factors influencing it. One hundred and ten primary family caregivers of pediatric SS patients from hospitals in Valencia, Spain, participated. Parental stress (Pediatric Inventory for Parents), anxious and depres- sive symptoms (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), family functioning (Family Cohesion and Adaptation Scale…

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A brief version of the Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP) in Spanish population: Stress of main family carers of chronic paediatric patients.

A chronic illness in childhood has a negative impact on the paediatric patient and on family functioning. Psychological stress in parents influences the level of adjustment to the illness of their children. The Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP) was designed to measure stress in parents whose child has a chronic illness or requires prolonged medical monitoring. The main objective of this study is to provide a brief version of the Spanish translation of the PIP, across a sample consisting of 465 main familial caregivers (85.2% female, n = 396) between 27 and 67 years old ([Formula: see text] = 44.13; SD = 5.35) of paediatric patients between 9 and 18 years old ([Formula: see text] = 12.10…

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