Green Amy L, Lambert Matthew C, Hurley Kristin Duppong
University of South Florida - Tampa, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 247E Barkley Memorial Center, Lincoln, NE, 68583-0732, USA.
J Behav Health Serv Res. 2019 Apr;46(2):306-318. doi: 10.1007/s11414-018-9627-6.
For parents of youth with emotional and behavioral disorders, activation, or having the knowledge, skills, and confidence to access and engage in appropriate services for their children, is important for managing their child's mental health care. The Parent Activation Measure (PAM) was modified to create the Parent Patient Activation Measure-Mental Health (P-PAM-MH) to measure activation as part of a randomized controlled trial of a peer parent support intervention for parents of youth with emotional and behavioral problems. Results from this study provide initial support for use of the P-PAM-MH as a measure of activation in this population and for the reliability and validity of the measure. Implications of the findings from this study for research and practice in behavioral health are discussed.
对于患有情绪和行为障碍青少年的父母来说，激活自身，即具备获取并参与为其子女提供的适当服务的知识、技能和信心，对于管理孩子的心理健康护理至关重要。对父母激活量表（PAM）进行了修改，以创建父母患者激活量表 - 心理健康版（P-PAM-MH），作为针对有情绪和行为问题青少年父母的同伴家长支持干预随机对照试验的一部分来测量激活情况。本研究结果为使用P-PAM-MH作为该人群激活情况的测量工具以及该测量工具的信度和效度提供了初步支持。讨论了本研究结果对行为健康研究和实践的启示。
