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Development and Psychometric Testing of the Attitudes Toward Mental Illness in Pediatric Patients Scale
Author(s) -
Villanueva Christina Streich,
Scott Shari Hughes,
Guzzetta Cathie E.,
Foster Barbara
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2009.00202.x
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , mental illness , reliability (semiconductor) , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychometrics , psychometric testing , psychology , population , internal consistency , medicine , content validity , mental health , environmental health , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
PROBLEM: To develop the Attitudes toward Mental Illness in Pediatric Patients (ATMIPP) Scale measuring nonpsychiatric provider attitudes toward pediatric patients with mental illness. METHODS: Responses from 492 nonpsychiatric and 30 psychiatric providers were evaluated for reliability and validity. Cronbach's alpha was used for reliability while factor analysis and known‐groups technique were used for validity. FINDINGS: The scale's internal consistency was 0.85. Factor analysis revealed three factors (Comfort, Tolerance, and Unbiasness) accounting for 74.5% of the variance. Compared to nonpsychiatric providers, psychiatric providers had significantly more positive attitudes on the ATMIPP ( p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The ATMIPP has evidence of reliability and validity for the sampled population.