Rotenberg K J, Cunningham J, Hayton N, Hutson L, Jones L, Marks C, Woods E, Betts L R
School of Psychology, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK.
Child Care Health Dev. 2008 Nov;34(6):748-56. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00872.x.
Researchers have developed scales assessing adults' trust beliefs in physicians and found that those are associated with measures of health behaviour and physical health. The purpose of the research was to develop a Children's Trust in General Physicians Scale (CTGPS) and examine its relation to health behaviour: adherence to medical regimes.
The participants were 128 children (68 girls and 60 boys) in Study 1 and 198 children (105 girls and 93 boys) in Study 2 who attended years 5 and 6 of elementary school in UK (mean ages = 10 years and 10 months and 10 years and 7 months respectively). The children completed the nine-item CTGPS and reported their trust in doctors and (in Study 2) adherence to medical regimes. Parents also reported those behaviours.
Principal components analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of the CTGPS yielded the expected three factors: Honesty, Emotional and Reliability. The CTGPS had acceptable internal consistency and, as evidence for its validity, was associated with reported trust in doctors. The results from Study 2 confirmed that the CTGPS was associated with adherence to medical regimes.
A CTGPS was developed that is associated with adherence to medical regimes.
研究人员已开发出评估成年人对医生信任信念的量表，并发现这些量表与健康行为和身体健康指标相关。本研究的目的是开发儿童对全科医生的信任量表（CTGPS），并检验其与健康行为（即坚持医疗方案）的关系。
研究1的参与者为128名儿童（68名女孩和60名男孩），研究2的参与者为198名儿童（105名女孩和93名男孩），他们就读于英国小学五年级和六年级（平均年龄分别为10岁10个月和10岁7个月）。孩子们完成了包含九个条目的CTGPS，并报告了他们对医生的信任程度（在研究2中还报告了对医疗方案的坚持情况）。家长们也报告了这些行为。
对CTGPS进行主成分分析和验证性因素分析得出了预期的三个因素：诚实、情感和可靠性。CTGPS具有可接受的内部一致性，并且作为其有效性的证据，与报告的对医生的信任相关。研究2的结果证实，CTGPS与坚持医疗方案相关。
开发了一种与坚持医疗方案相关的CTGPS。
