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. 2017 May 11;30(1):10.
doi: 10.1186/s41155-017-0065-9.

Brazilian study of adaptation and psychometric properties of the Coping Health Inventory for Parents

Regina Basso Zanon  1 , Mônia Aparecida Da Silva  2 , Euclides José De Mendonça Filho  2 , Denise Ruschel Bandeira  2 , Manoel Antônio Dos Santos  3 , Ricardo Halpern  4 , Cleonice Alves Bosa  2
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Brazilian study of adaptation and psychometric properties of the Coping Health Inventory for Parents

Regina Basso Zanon et al. Psicol Reflex Crit. .

Abstract

The Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP) evaluates coping patterns of parents of chronically ill children and assesses different coping strategies using three subscales. This study aimed to translate and transculturally adapt the CHIP for a Brazilian sample and investigate the preliminary psychometrics of the scale. Rating scale Rasch analysis was performed on CHIP responses, and the psychometric performance of each of the three subscales was tested. Two hundred twenty parents of individuals with health problems participated in the study, answering a sociodemographic questionnaire-the Brazilian version of the CHIP-and Folkman and Lazarus's coping questionnaire. All items exhibited good fit to the measurement model, although response categories were not used as intended and little variability on person parameter estimates was obtained. These preliminary results suggested that each construct being measured by the three subscales should be treated separately, corroborating the theoretical model of the original instrument. Suggestions to address the psychometric limitations of the instrument were made in order to improve measurement precision.

Keywords: Coping; Measurement; Parents; Rasch analysis; Test validity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Figures

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Item-person map for the family dimension of the CHIP
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Item-person map for the support dimension of the CHIP
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Item-person map for the medical dimension of the CHIP
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