Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision
<em>Background and aims.</em> Parents’ empowerment is advocated to promote and preserve an informed and autonomous decision regarding their children’ immunization. The scope of this study is to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure parents’ psycholo...
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| author | Marta Fadda Elisa Galimberti Luisa Romanò Marino Faccini Sabrina Senatore Alessandro Zanetti Peter Johannes Schulz |
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| description | <em>Background and aims.</em> Parents’ empowerment is advocated to promote and preserve an informed and autonomous decision regarding their children’ immunization. The scope of this study is to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure parents’ psychological empowerment in their children’s vaccination decision and propose a context-specific definition of this construct. <br /><em>Materials and Methods.</em> Grounding in previous qualitative data, we generated an initial pool of items which was later content and face validated by a panel of experts. A pretest allowed us to reduce the initial pool to 9 items. Convergent and discriminant validity measures included the General Self-Efficacy Scale, a Psychological Empowerment Scale, and the Control Preference Scale. Vaccination-related outcomes such as attitude and intention were also included. <br /><em>Results</em>. Principal Component Analysis revealed a 2-factor structure, with each factor composed of 2 items. The first factor concerns the perceived influence of one’s personal and family experience with vaccination, while the second factor represents the desire not to ask other parents about their experience with vaccination and their lack of interest in other parents’ vaccination opinion. <br /><em>Conclusions</em>. In light of its association with positive immunization- related outcomes, public health efforts should be directed to reinforce parents’ empowerment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-721ec40c44934d38b445a534ff105f4c2023-01-02T02:33:11ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Public Health Research2279-90282279-90362017-09-016210.4081/jphr.2017.955174Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decisionMarta Fadda0Elisa Galimberti1Luisa Romanò2Marino Faccini3Sabrina Senatore4Alessandro Zanetti5Peter Johannes Schulz6Institute of Communication and Health, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH ZurichDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH ZurichDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of MilanAgency for the Protection of Health of the Province of MilanAgency for the Protection of Health of the Province of MilanDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of MilanInstitute of Communication and Health, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano<em>Background and aims.</em> Parents’ empowerment is advocated to promote and preserve an informed and autonomous decision regarding their children’ immunization. The scope of this study is to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure parents’ psychological empowerment in their children’s vaccination decision and propose a context-specific definition of this construct. <br /><em>Materials and Methods.</em> Grounding in previous qualitative data, we generated an initial pool of items which was later content and face validated by a panel of experts. A pretest allowed us to reduce the initial pool to 9 items. Convergent and discriminant validity measures included the General Self-Efficacy Scale, a Psychological Empowerment Scale, and the Control Preference Scale. Vaccination-related outcomes such as attitude and intention were also included. <br /><em>Results</em>. Principal Component Analysis revealed a 2-factor structure, with each factor composed of 2 items. The first factor concerns the perceived influence of one’s personal and family experience with vaccination, while the second factor represents the desire not to ask other parents about their experience with vaccination and their lack of interest in other parents’ vaccination opinion. <br /><em>Conclusions</em>. In light of its association with positive immunization- related outcomes, public health efforts should be directed to reinforce parents’ empowerment.http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/955Vaccination, decision-making, psychological empowerment, parents, scale development |
| spellingShingle | Marta Fadda Elisa Galimberti Luisa Romanò Marino Faccini Sabrina Senatore Alessandro Zanetti Peter Johannes Schulz Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision Journal of Public Health Research Vaccination, decision-making, psychological empowerment, parents, scale development |
| title | Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision |
| title_full | Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision |
| title_fullStr | Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision |
| title_full_unstemmed | Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision |
| title_short | Validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision |
| title_sort | validation of a scale to measure parental psychological empowerment in the vaccination decision |
| topic | Vaccination, decision-making, psychological empowerment, parents, scale development |
| url | http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/955 |
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