Pediatric anesthesia & critical care

Children's perioperative multidimensional anxiety scale: Turkish cross‐cultural adaptation

Paediatr AnaesthPublished Methodological study

Authors' conclusion

The CPMAS, which was developed by Chow et al. in English, had high validity and reliability levels for Turkey.

Study context

Population
Children aged 7–10 years undergoing surgery, Bartın Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital, September 2021–May 2022
Participants
50 children
Outcome
Validity and reliability of the Turkish CPMAS (internal consistency, test-retest, parallel forms, content and construct validity)
Follow-up
Before surgery, day of surgery, 1 month after surgery
Methodological detailscross-cultural adaptation and validation, single-centre
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and validation
  • Single-centre

Performance

As reported in the abstract

Validity and reliability of Turkish CPMAS
Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha)
0.858, 0.916, 0.864
Item-total correlation before surgery
0.58-0.71
Item-total correlation on day of surgery
0.77-0.83
Item-total correlation 1 month after surgery
0.60-0.80
Single-factor scale; variance explained
65%
Correlation Children's Perioperative Multidimensional Anxiety Scale (CPMAS) vs CAM-S (parallel forms) before surgery
0.474
Correlation CPMAS vs CAM-S on day of surgery
0.528
Correlation CPMAS vs CAM-S 1 month after surgery
0.599

Original publication

Children's perioperative multidimensional anxiety scale: Turkish cross‐cultural adaptation. Paediatr Anaesth. Published 6 February 2023. doi:10.1111/pan.14636

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