Title: Coping-Health Inventory for Parents: Assessing Coping Among Iranian Parents in the Care of Children With Cancer and Introductory Development of an Adapted Iranian Coping-Health Inventory for Parents
Abstract: Abstract The factorial structure of the Coping-Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP) instrument was investigated. Predictive, discriminative, and concurrent validity was also examined. A sample of 75 mothers and fathers in the care of adolescents diagnosed with cancer living in Iran completed the CHIP as part of a large battery of measures. Exploratoty factor analysis yielded a 13-item, 3-factor model that conceptually replicated the dimensional structure of the original CHIP instrument. The newly adapted scales predicted adolescents' psychological adjustment beyond religious coping and gender of parent, and differentially predicted adaptive and nonadaptive coping styles. The 3-factor adapted CHIP measure offers preliminary evidence for generalizability of the dimensional structure of the CHIP to the Iranian social and cultural situation. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to Dr. Rudolph H. Moos for his support and assistance in the preparation of this manuscript. In the process of data collection, the kind cooperation of the supervisors, technicians, nurses, and other personnel of the Hematology and Oncology Laboratories and Clinics from the following hospitals is acknowledged: Ali Asghar Hospital, Parvaneh Vosugh, M.D., Mahshid Sanei, R.N., Mohammad Reza Golpaigani, M.D., and Ms. Rajabi; Shohada Hospital, Farideh Mousavi, M.D.; Mofid Children's Hospital, Farid Iman Zadeh, M.D., Mohammad Taghi Arzanian, M.D., Bibi Shahin Shamsian, M.D., and Sadighe Rastegar, R.N.; and the Children's Medical Center, Mira IzadYiar, M.D., Saideh Zurufchi, and Mansooreh Tavakolian, R.N.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-11-10
Language: en
Type: article
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