Brazilian study of adaptation and psychometric properties of the Coping Health Inventory for Parents.

ABSTRACT: The Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP) evaluates coping patterns of parents of chronically ill children and assesses different coping strategies using three subscales. This study aimed to translate and transculturally adapt the CHIP for a Brazilian sample and investigate the preliminary psychometrics of the scale. Rating scale Rasch analysis was performed on CHIP responses, and the psychometric performance of each of the three subscales was tested. Two hundred twenty parents of individuals with health problems participated in the study, answering a sociodemographic questionnaire-the Brazilian version of the CHIP-and Folkman and Lazarus's coping questionnaire. All items exhibited good fit to the measurement model, although response categories were not used as intended and little var

SUBMITTER: Zanon RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6964195 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature