Measurement Characteristics of the Inventory of Parent Experience Scales

Sexton, David; Thompson, Bruce; Scott, Randall; Wood, Thomas A.

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“…The authors of the inventory supplied a version, which was slightly modified to apply to 5 year old children. Total score was used in the analysis because it has been shown to possess better psychometric properties than subscale scores 27. Maternal psychological distress, such as depression, anxiety, and psychosomatic symptoms, was assessed using a Norwegian translation of the Symptom Check List Revised (SCL-90-R) 28.…”

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Cognitive development of term small for gestational age children at five years of age

Sommerfelt

Andersson²,

Sonnander³

et al. 2000

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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Aim-To assess the relative significance for cognitive development of small for gestational age, parental demographic factors, and factors related to the child rearing environment. Methods-IQ of a population based cohort of 338 term infants who were small for gestational age (SGA) and without major handicap, and a random control sample of 335 appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants were compared at 5 years of age. Results-The mean non-verbal IQ was four points lower, while the mean verbal IQ was three points lower for the children in the SGA group. The results were not confounded by parental demographic or child rearing factors. However, parental factors, including maternal non-verbal problem solving abilities, and child rearing style, accounted for 20% of the variance in non-verbal IQ, while SGA versus AGA status accounted for only 2%. The comparable numbers for verbal IQ were 30 and 1%. Furthermore, we found no evidence that the cognitive development of SGA children was more sensitive to a non-optimal child rearing environment than that of AGA children. Maternal smoking at conception was associated with a reduction in mean IQ comparable to that found for SGA status, and this eVect was the same for SGA and AGA children. The cognitive function of asymmetric SGA was comparable to that of symmetric SGA children. Conclusions-Our findings indicate that child cognitive development is strongly associated with parental factors, but only marginally associated with intrauterine growth retardation. (Arch Dis Child 2000;83:25-30)

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive development of term small for gestational age children at five years of age

Sommerfelt

Andersson²,

Sonnander³

et al. 2000

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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“…Total score was used in the analysis because it has been shown to possess better psychometric properties than subscale scores. 30 We evaluated maternal psychological distress, such as depression, anxiety, and psychosomatic symptoms, using a Norwegian translation of the Symptom Check List Revised (SCL-90-R).3' The total score (Global Stress Index) was used rather than subscale scores, as this has proved more reli-…”

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Parental factors in cognitive outcome of non-handicapped low birthweight infants.

Sommerfelt

Ellertsen²,

Markestad³

1995

Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition

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A population based cohort of 144 children weighing less than 2000 g who were without major handicap, and a random control sample of 163 children born at term and weighing over 3000 g were investigated. The aim was to assess the relative importance for cognitive development at 5 years of age, of birthweight, parental demographic factors, and factors related to the environment in which the child was reared. The mean non-verbal IQ was 6 1 points lower (95% CI, 2-3 to 10) for the low birthweight (LBW) group, but the difference was reduced to 4-8 points (95% CI, 1.1 to 8.5) after adjusting for confounding parental demographic and childrearing factors. The verbal IQ was similar for the two groups after such adjustment. Paternal education was the main confounding variable, and demographic factors such as parental education and family income were much stronger predictors of child IQ than birthweight or factors related to the childrearing environment.There was no evidence that the cognitive development of low birthweight children was more sensitive to a nonoptimal childrearing environment than that of normal birthweight children. These findings indicate that the risk of impaired cognitive development increases with decreasing socioeconomic status, and that this risk is much larger than, and independent of, the small risk attributable to low birthweight. (Arch Dis Child 1995; 73: F135-F142)

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“…There is growing understanding that all measuring instruments must be critically and empirically examined for their reliability and validity" (p. 431). Specific to early intervention research, Sexton, Thompson, Scott, and Wood (1990) stated that "These two psychometric properties [reliability and validity] are critical . .…”

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Evaluating the Psychometric Integrity of Instruments Used in Early Intervention Research

Snyder

Lawson

Thompson

et al. 1993

Topics in Early Childhood Special Education

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Researchers in early intervention recognize that instruments used to measure child developmental status should yield reliable and valid data. Many test manuals, however, present little empirical evidence regarding psychometric integrity of test scores, especially as regards young children with exceptionalities. We use data on the Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI) from a sample of young children with disabilities as a heuristic for demonstrating the importance of reliability and validity analyses and to illustrate some of the many plausible analyses that can be employed by researchers.

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Measurement Characteristics of the Inventory of Parent Experience Scales

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Cognitive development of term small for gestational age children at five years of age

Cognitive development of term small for gestational age children at five years of age

Parental factors in cognitive outcome of non-handicapped low birthweight infants.

Evaluating the Psychometric Integrity of Instruments Used in Early Intervention Research

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