Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire for screening children and adolescents for plastic surgery: cross-cultural validation study

Abstract

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Patient-reported outcome measurements assessing the emotional state of children and adolescents who seek plastic surgery are important for determining whether the intervention is indicated or not.

Spanish Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Parent Version of the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ-P) in a Non-Clinical Sample of Young School-Aged Children

“…The internal consistency of the scale was adequate (α = .83) and similar to those reported by previous studies conducted in child and adolescent samples of other countries such as the United States (α = .84-.87; Angold et al, 1995;Rhew et al, 2010), Norway (α = .83; Karevold et al, 2017), Brazil (α = .87; Sucupira et al, 2017), and Australia (α = .89; Tennant et al, 2017). Additionally, test-retest results (ICC = .80) supported the scale as a consistent measure over time and are in line with previous findings (ICC = .79; Sucupira et al, 2017). Thus, these results showed that the Spanish version of the SMFQ-P is a reliable instrument to measure depressive symptoms.…”

“…Thus, the aim of the present study was to examine in a sample of primary school Spanish-speaking children aged 6 to 8: (a) The factor structure; (b) the internal consistency and test-retest reliability; and (c) the convergent and divergent validity of the SMFQ-P. Based on findings in previous studies (e.g., Angold et al, 1995;Karevold et al, 2017;Sucupira et al, 2017), an adequate fit of the Spanish data to the single-factor structure of the SMFQ-P was hypothesized, and reliability was expected to be good. Regarding convergent and divergent validity, positive significant correlations were expected between the SMFQ and measures of emotional psychopathology (i.e., depression and anxiety), and lower correlations with a non-emotional construct measuring prosocial behavior (e.g., Muris et al, 2003;Zhao et al, 2012).…”

“…Both the self-report and parent-report (SMFQ-P) have been shown to have a unifactorial structure and good psychometric properties in community samples, highlighting their ability to detect children at risk of depression and discriminate clinical from non-clinical cases (e.g., Rhew et al, 2010;Sharp et al, 2006;Thapar & McGuffin, 1998). Recently, this measure has been cross-culturally adapted to Norwegian (Lundervold et al, 2013), Serbian (Stevanovic, 2012), Bangladeshi (Deeba et al, 2015), New Zeland (Thabrew et al, 2018), Chinese (Cheng et al, 2009), and Brazilian-Portuguese (Sucupira et al, 2017) populations. However, it has not yet been validated for use in Spanish-speaking children (Bernaras et al, 2019).…”

“…On another hand, although the SMFQ-P has shown to be a useful scale to assess childhood depression, even for evaluation of treatment response in early schoolaged children (Creswell et al, 2020;Tennant et al, 2017), few data are available about its psychometric properties in young children (i.e., 6-8 years), as studies have generally focused on older ages (e.g., Karevold et al, 2017;Sucupira et al, 2017). Therefore, it would be valuable to provide further data regarding the factor structure, reliability (i.e., including test-retest reliability) and validity of the SMFQ-P with young school-aged children.…”

Early identification of depressive symptoms in school‐aged children: Psychometric properties and validation of a new short version of Short Mood & Feelings Questionnaire

“…SMFQ has been used to screen for depressive symptoms in various countries and cultures, including Australia and New Zealand, Asia [28,29] and South America [30]. It has been reported to successfully detect depressive symptoms in children and adolescents in hospitals [24] and among adolescents with asthma [31], children and adolescents awaiting plastic surgery [30] and arrested adolescents [32].…”