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Psychometric Characteristics of Turkish Version of Parental Attitudes towards Childhood Vaccines (PACV) Scale
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Original Article
VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 2
P: 153-167
August 2020

Psychometric Characteristics of Turkish Version of Parental Attitudes towards Childhood Vaccines (PACV) Scale

J Curr Pediatr 2020;18(2):153-167
DOI: 10.4274/jcp.2020.0015
Celalettin Çevik 1
Soner Güneş 2
Sultan Eser 2
Erhan Eser 3
1. Balıkesir Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Halk Sağlığı Hemşireliği Anabilim Dalı
2. Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı
3. Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı
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Received Date: 17.12.2019
Accepted Date: 08.05.2020
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ABSTRACT

CONCLUSIONS:

The PACV scale is a valid and reliable scale adapted to the Turkish population. Parents' Attitudes towards Childhood Vaccines Scale is sufficient and satisfactory in terms of distribution, measurement ability, internal consistency and model fit. Total correlation after overlap correction was found below 30 in questions 7 and 14 and the results must be interpreted with caution.

RESULTS:

68.2% of the parents were women, 85.3% had sufficient income perception and 68.7% had only one child. The mean age was 30.84±5.15 for parents and 3.24±1.63 for children. Floor and ceiling effects of the scale are within the desired limits. Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was 0.676. Test-retest results are good (ICC: 0.93, p: 0.001). In the explanatory factor analysis, KMO was 0.77 and the total explained variance was 57.41%. In the Confirmatory Factor Analysis, compliance indicators are good (X2 / sd: 1.87, RMSEA: 0.0652, CFI: 0.949, NFI: 0.90). The scale was found to be discriminant according to the validity of known groups.

MATERIALS and METHODS:

This methodological study was conducted between January-May 2019 with parents of 0-59 months old children (n = 211) who applied to Balıkesir University Health Application and Research Hospital Children's Polyclinic. PACV scale consists of 15 items in four dimensions: behavior, attitude, safety and effectiveness dimensions. Internal consistency (using Cronbach's alpha value) was used in reliability analyzes, structural validity (known groups and confirmatory factor analysis) and discriminant validity were used in validity analyzes. In the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the Comparative Compliance Index (BSI-CFI) and RMSEA were used. In the analysis, SS SPSS version 21.0 for Windows program and Lisrel 8.54 statistical package programs were used.

INTRODUCTION:

Vaccination hesitation is an important public health problem that has increased in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Parenting Attitudes towards Childhood Vaccines Scale (PACV).

Keywords:
Parent, vaccination hesitation, childhood vaccines, psychometric characteristics