Jafarnezhad Aboubakr, Ghaem Maralani Haleh, Sahraian Ali, Hassanzadeh Jafar
Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Addict Health. 2025 Jan;17:1605. doi: 10.34172/ahj.1605. Epub 2025 May 21.
Drug addiction is one of the social and health problems worldwide. Children are the most vulnerable social stratum in the problem of addiction. The study aimed to design a questionnaire for children's addiction tendencies and study the psychometric characteristics of Iranian children.
It was a cross-sectional study that was conducted in 2023 among 400 students of Shiraz city (Iran), selected using multi-stage sampling (stratified cluster simple random). Inclusion criteria were students, residents of Shiraz city, studying in the first or second year of high school, and exclusion criteria were non-cooperation and unwillingness to participate in the study. Validity was determined through face, content, and construct validity, with exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Moreover, SPSS 26 was applied for further analysis.
The average age of the participants was 15.39±1.94. The face and content validity of the scale was quantitatively and qualitatively assessed and confirmed, and the construct validity was demonstrated through EFA. The scale consists of 30 items with four factors that explain 40% of the total extracted variance. Cronbach's alpha and the ICC of the factors indicated strong to excellent reliability of the scale.
The results showed that the current questionnaire has good validity and reliability; thus, it can be applied with confidence to study the addiction tendency and screening of Iranian children aged 12 to 18 years.
药物成瘾是全球范围内的社会和健康问题之一。儿童是成瘾问题中最脆弱的社会阶层。本研究旨在设计一份关于儿童成瘾倾向的问卷，并研究伊朗儿童的心理测量特征。
这是一项横断面研究，于2023年在设拉子市（伊朗）的400名学生中进行，采用多阶段抽样（分层整群简单随机抽样）选取。纳入标准为设拉子市居民、就读于高中一、二年级的学生，排除标准为不合作和不愿参与研究。通过内容效度、表面效度和结构效度（采用探索性因素分析）来确定效度，使用Cronbach's alpha和组内相关系数（ICC）评估信度。此外，应用SPSS 26进行进一步分析。
参与者的平均年龄为15.39±1.94岁。对量表的表面效度和内容效度进行了定量和定性评估并得到确认，通过探索性因素分析证明了结构效度。该量表由30个项目组成，包含四个因素，解释了总提取方差的40%。各因素的Cronbach's alpha和ICC表明该量表具有较高至极好的信度。
结果表明，当前问卷具有良好的效度和信度；因此，可以放心地将其应用于研究12至18岁伊朗儿童的成瘾倾向和筛查。
