Yap Marie B H, Jorm Anthony F, Lubman Dan I
School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
BMC Public Health. 2015 Feb 10;15:114. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1452-8.
The Parenting Guidelines for Adolescent Alcohol Use were developed to support parents in reducing adolescent alcohol misuse. The aims of this paper were to: (1) validate an online parent self-assessment survey as a criterion-referenced measure of parental factors that are important for predicting adolescent alcohol misuse; (2) examine parent web-users' concordance with the Parenting Guidelines (extent to which their knowledge and behaviours align with Guidelines recommendations), and (3) examine the associations of parent and child characteristics with parental Guidelines concordance.
Participants were 489 parents who completed the online survey. The survey assessed parent and child characteristics and parental concordance with the Guidelines in nine parenting areas. Reliability of the survey measure was assessed via an estimate of the agreement coefficient for each of the nine areas. Concurrent validity was examined by exploring the correlates of parental Guidelines concordance.
Reliability of the measure was acceptable to high in eight of the nine parenting areas. Greater parental Guidelines concordance was associated with being female, beliefs about healthy levels of drinking that align with the Australian national alcohol use guidelines, drinking within guidelines-recommended levels, the reduced likelihood of another adult in the household with a drinking problem, an older age of adolescent alcohol initiation, and greater confidence in the reported age of adolescent initiation.
This validated self-assessment parenting measure can be useful for identifying targets for parenting interventions designed to prevent or reduce adolescent alcohol misuse, and as a pre- and post-intervention assessment to assess the effects of such interventions.
制定青少年酒精使用育儿指南是为了帮助家长减少青少年酒精滥用问题。本文的目的是：（1）验证一项在线家长自我评估调查，作为预测青少年酒精滥用的重要家长因素的标准参照测量工具；（2）研究家长网络用户与育儿指南的一致性（即他们的知识和行为与指南建议的相符程度），以及（3）研究家长和孩子的特征与家长指南一致性之间的关联。
参与者为489名完成在线调查的家长。该调查评估了家长和孩子的特征，以及家长在九个育儿领域与指南的一致性。通过估计九个领域中每个领域的一致性系数来评估调查测量的可靠性。通过探索家长指南一致性的相关因素来检验同时效度。
九个育儿领域中有八个领域的测量可靠性为可接受至高度。更高的家长指南一致性与女性身份、与澳大利亚国家酒精使用指南一致的健康饮酒水平信念、在指南推荐水平内饮酒、家庭中另一位成年人有饮酒问题的可能性降低、青少年开始饮酒的年龄较大以及对报告的青少年开始饮酒年龄的更大信心相关。
这种经过验证的自我评估育儿测量工具可用于确定旨在预防或减少青少年酒精滥用的育儿干预目标，并作为干预前后的评估工具来评估此类干预的效果。
