Assessing Parental Anxiety in Pediatric Food Allergy: Development of the Worry About Food Allergy Questionnaire
| Autor: | Catherine C. Peterson, Stefanie Poehacker, Alix M. McLaughlin, Tori Humiston |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050103 clinical psychology media_common.quotation_subject Anxiety 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha Food allergy Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Criterion validity Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Child media_common 05 social sciences Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease Exploratory factor analysis Clinical Psychology Health psychology Convergent validity medicine.symptom Worry Psychology Food Hypersensitivity Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings. 28(3) |
| ISSN: | 1573-3572 |
| Popis: | Food allergies (FAs) in children are increasingly common, and strict allergen avoidance and safety concerns place parents at risk for anxiety (Lau et al. in Pediatr Allergy Immunol 25:236–242, 2014). Assessing parental anxiety with generic instruments may not capture the unique experience of parents managing children’s FAs. This study developed and preliminarily validated the 13-item Worry About Food Allergy (WAFA) questionnaire, a measure of FA-specific parental anxiety, in an online sample of 265 parents aged 22–66 (M = 40.25) of children with FAs. The WAFA showed good internal reliability (Cronbach’s α = .89) and moderate convergent validity with other anxiety measures, indicating support for a reliable measure of a discrete, specific construct. Exploratory factor analysis indicated a single factor structure. Criterion validity was established through significant, small, positive correlations with relevant allergy variables. A coherent single factor measure, the WAFA, shows promise as a screening tool for parental anxiety in pediatric practice and FA management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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