Whittaker Karen A, Cowley Sarah
Department of Nursing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK.
J Child Health Care. 2006 Dec;10(4):296-308. doi: 10.1177/1367493506067882.
Parenting support has become an increasing feature of child health services within the United Kingdom but typically, outcome measures available for testing the effectiveness of parenting interventions have been developed and validated elsewhere. This article reports the results of a feasibility study testing the Parenting Self-Agency Measure (PSAM) and subscales from the Self-Efficacy for Parenting Tasks Index (SEPTI) as outcome measures for UK-based parenting support programmes. Forty-six mothers and 10 fathers accessing routine health visitor and school nurse services participated in the test-re-test of the scales and commented separately on the acceptability of scale questions. Very large intra-class correlation results indicated good repeatability but alpha coefficient scores and factor analysis results suggest that UK respondents may not recognize SEPTI subscales items as measuring single dimensions. The PSAM was a more stable measure of parenting self-beliefs than the SEPTI subscales when tested with a UK sample of parents.
育儿支持已成为英国儿童健康服务中越来越重要的一项内容，但通常用于测试育儿干预措施有效性的结果指标是在其他地方开发和验证的。本文报告了一项可行性研究的结果，该研究测试了育儿自我效能感量表（PSAM）以及育儿任务自我效能量表（SEPTI）的子量表，将其作为英国育儿支持项目的结果指标。46名母亲和10名父亲通过常规健康访视员和学校护士服务参与了量表的重测，并分别对量表问题的可接受性发表了评论。非常高的组内相关结果表明重复性良好，但阿尔法系数得分和因子分析结果表明，英国受访者可能不认为SEPTI子量表项目能测量单一维度。在对英国父母样本进行测试时，PSAM比SEPTI子量表更能稳定地衡量育儿自信心。
