Karmina Elena Rojas-Carrasco1. 1. Departamento de Salud Mental, Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. karmina_rojas@hotmail.com
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.
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: Jose Luis Platero; María Cuerda-Ballester; Vanessa Ibáñez; David Sancho; María Mar Lopez-Rodríguez; Eraci Drehmer; Jose Enrique de la Rubia Ortí Journal: Nutrients Date: 2020-01-23 Impact factor: 5.717
Authors: Filiberto Toledano-Toledano; José Moral de la Rubia; Miriam Teresa Domínguez-Guedea; Laura A Nabors; Blanca E Barcelata-Eguiarte; Eduardo Rocha-Pérez; David Luna; Ahidée Leyva-López; Leonor Rivera-Rivera Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2020-10-23 Impact factor: 3.390