J Korean Acad Child Health Nurs.  2007 Oct;13(4):444-453.

Development of a Tool to Measure Maternal Behavior for Health Promotion for Preschool Children with Disabilities

• Lee AR
• Han KJ

Abstract

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develope a tool to assess mothers' behavior related to health promotion if their preschool children had disabillties. METHOD: The research design was a methodological study. This tool was developed in 4 stages: first, a content matrix as a conceptual framework was developed using Gordon's 11 functional health promotion patterns and 5 categories (Lee, Jung & An, 1996); second, 40 preliminary items were selected through references and interviews with 9 mothers of children with disabilities; third, 2 items were discarded after content validity was done by 3 experts; fourth, reliability and validity were tested with a sample of 243 mothers of children with disabilities who were of preschool age.
RESULTS
The final tool consisted of 19 items and Cronbach's alpha coefficient for internal consistency was .82. Five factors were extracted by factor analysis and they explained 55.58% of the total variance.
CONCLUSIONS
This tool was identified to have a high degree of reliability and validity. So it can be utilized to assess mothers' behavior in providing health promotion for their children who have disabilities.

Keyword

Preschool; Disabled children; Health promotion; Maternal behavior

MeSH Terms

Child
Child, Preschool*
Disabled Children
Health Promotion*
Humans
Maternal Behavior*
Methods
Mothers
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design
Child Health