Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Children's Illness-Related Concerns Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the effect of maternal breast cancer on many children, there is no valid or reliable quantitative measure of the concern that children attribute to their mothers' disease, which constrains both science and clinical practice.

Objectives

This study aimed to develop and psychometrically evaluate the initial measures of child-reported, illness-related concerns associated with maternal cancer.

Methods

The study was conducted in three phases: scoping review, item extraction from a battery of items obtained from school-aged children about general issues related to their mothers' breast cancer, and testing of the three proposed structural models of these extracted items using confirmatory factor analysis. The scoping review yielded five categories of illnes

SUBMITTER: Almulla HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10463208 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature