The Lung Information Needs Questionnaire: Development, preliminary validation and findings

Development and validation of the health information needs questionnaire for families of children with cancer

Development and Validation of the Fatigue State Questionnaire: Preliminary Findings

Measurements and Results: The FSQ showed adequate internal consistency; Chronbach's alpha ranged from .73 to .82. Test-retest reliability after a ten-minute interval was also acceptable (r=.71). The FSQ had incremental validity over the (SSS) in predicting measures of participant health (r=-.25 vs. r=-.11, z=-2.30, p=<.05), sleep debt (r=.30 vs. r= .15, z=2.82, p<.01) and sleep changes (over or...

The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation

This paper reports on three studies on the development and validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ), a brief, multidimensional self-report measure that assesses parental reflective functioning or mentalizing, that is, the capacity to treat the infant as a psychological agent. Study 1 investigated the factor structure, reliability, and relationships of the PRFQ with...

Development and Preliminary Validation of Chinese Preschoolers’ Eating Behavior Questionnaire

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to develop a questionnaire for caregivers to assess the eating behavior of Chinese preschoolers. METHODS To assess children's eating behaviors, 152 items were derived from a broad review of the literature related to epidemiology surveys and the assessment of children's eating behaviors. All of these items were reviewed by 50 caregivers of preschooler...

Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale: development, validation, and preliminary findings

BACKGROUND This article reports three studies describing the development and validation of the 12-item Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale (SPTS-12). SPT refers to the anxiety-related cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to pain that resemble the features of a traumatic stress reaction. METHODS In Study 1, a preliminary set of 79 items was administered to 116 participants. The ...