This Is My Baby Interview: An Adaptation to the Spanish Language and Culture

Abstract

Evaluating the emotional state of parents is important for determining the intervention in the context of a family with a baby with Down syndrome. “This is my baby” is an interview that measures the acceptance, commitment and awareness of influence of parents towards their baby. The Spanish adaptation of this instrument helps to better understand the emotional state of parents of children with developmental disorders. A cross-cultural adaptation and reliability analysis was carried out. The results suggest that the Spanish version of the This Is My Baby interview is a reliable instrument to measure the levels of acceptance, commitment and awareness of influence of parents of an infant with Down syndrome.

A pilot randomised controlled trial on the effectiveness of infant massage on the acceptance, commitment and awareness of influence in parents of babies with Down syndrome

“…This interview has been cross‐culturally adapted to the Spanish population, specifically in parents with babies with DS (Pinero‐Pinto et al . 2022 ). Intra‐rater reliability, evaluated with intra‐class correlation coefficient (ICC) was between 0.841 and 0.962, and inter‐rater reliability was between 0.867 and 0.932.…”

“…In the latter case, the first seven questions are about the mother/father-child relationship, and the last question is about their own experience as parents. The version for biological parents has been cross-culturally adapted to Spanish in a population of parents with children with DS (Pinero-Pinto et al 2022).…”

“…The version for biological parents has been cross‐culturally adapted to Spanish in a population of parents with children with DS (Pinero‐Pinto et al . 2022 ).…”

Adapting a quality of life scale for children and young people with Down syndrome in Chile

“…In a recently published adaptation of an interview that measures acceptance, commitment, and awareness of influence of parents towards their baby with DS, a pilot study was carried during the transcultural adaptation phase, to identify confusing words and to make sure that questions were understandable to parents (Pinero-Pinto et al, 2022). Although we did not carry out a pilot study, the opinion of parents was considered incorporating them into the group of expert judges.…”