Regional Centre for Child and Youth - Mental Health and Child Welfare (RKBU), Central Norway, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Department of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
School of Psychological Sciences, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2024 Mar;33(1):e2017. doi: 10.1002/mpr.2017.
Parents play a pivotal role in child development and several parental factors have been identified as risk or protective factors for childhood anxiety and depression. To assess and target these parental factors in interventions, there is a need for a comprehensive, easy-to-use instrument.
This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Parenting to Reduce Child Anxiety and Depression Scale, PaRCADS(N) in a Norwegian community sample (N = 163) of parents of children aged 8-12 years.
Our findings indicate that PaRCADS(N) has acceptable psychometric properties. These results are comparable to those of the original study of the PaRCADS in Australia.
Based on these results, we recommend that PaRCADS(N) can be utilized by health care workers as a tool for assessment and identification of parental practices related to child anxiety and/or depression to target relevant risk and protective factors in treatment and prevention.
父母在儿童发展中起着关键作用,已有多项父母因素被确定为儿童焦虑和抑郁的风险或保护因素。为了在干预中评估和针对这些父母因素,需要一种全面、易于使用的工具。
本研究旨在调查父母减少儿童焦虑和抑郁量表(PaRCADS)适应版本在挪威社区样本(父母为 8-12 岁儿童,N=163)中的心理测量特性。
我们的研究结果表明,PaRCADS(N)具有可接受的心理测量特性。这些结果与 PaRCADS 在澳大利亚的原始研究结果相当。
基于这些结果,我们建议卫生保健工作者可以使用 PaRCADS(N)作为评估工具,以识别与儿童焦虑和/或抑郁相关的父母实践,从而确定治疗和预防中的相关风险和保护因素。