Miller K M, Wysocki T, Cassady J F, Cancel D, Izenberg N
Division of Behavioral Pediatrics and Psychology, Nemours Children's Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida 32207, USA.
Anesth Analg. 1999 Feb;88(2):251-7. doi: 10.1097/00000539-199902000-00005.
Parents' anxiety about their children's anesthesia may adversely affect the children's outcomes and compromise the quality of informed consent. Studies of these issues have been limited by the lack of validated measures of parental anxiety and knowledge surrounding anesthesia. In the present study, we evaluated psychometric properties of the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) and the Standard Anesthesia Learning Test (SALT) among 85 parents who participated in an evaluation of the effects of a videotape about pediatric anesthesia. The results supported the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity of both instruments and documented the equivalence of two forms of the SALT. Factor analysis supported the previously demonstrated factor structure of the APAIS, further confirming its construct validity. We conclude that the APAIS and SALT are reliable and valid measures of parental anxiety and knowledge of pediatric anesthesia that can be used for clinical and research purposes.
This study verified the reliability and validity of two questionnaires for measuring parents' knowledge and anxiety about pediatric anesthesia. These questionnaires can be used in further research on factors affecting parental anxiety and knowledge before their children's surgery.
父母对孩子麻醉的焦虑可能会对孩子的预后产生不利影响，并损害知情同意的质量。由于缺乏关于父母焦虑和麻醉相关知识的有效测量方法，对这些问题的研究受到了限制。在本研究中，我们评估了85名参与儿科麻醉录像带效果评估的父母的阿姆斯特丹术前焦虑与信息量表（APAIS）和标准麻醉学习测试（SALT）的心理测量特性。结果支持了这两种工具的内部一致性、重测信度和同时效度，并记录了SALT两种形式的等效性。因子分析支持了先前证明的APAIS因子结构，并进一步证实了其结构效度。我们得出结论，APAIS和SALT是测量父母对儿科麻醉的焦虑和知识的可靠且有效的工具，可用于临床和研究目的。
本研究验证了两份用于测量父母对儿科麻醉的知识和焦虑的问卷的信度和效度。这些问卷可用于进一步研究影响孩子手术前父母焦虑和知识的因素。
