Measuring function in children with chronic pain: Investigating the validity, reliability and factor structure of the child and parent versions of FDI in the population of children with chronic pain and their parents

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Faculty Member of Psychology Department, Shahed University; Tehran, Persian Gulf Highway, Near the shrine of Imam, Shahed University, Faculty of Humanities.

2 Ph.D in Clinical Psychology. Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences

3 Master of General Psychology, Tabriz University

4 Bachelor of Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Roudhen Branch

Abstract

Target: The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity, reliability and factor structure of the child and parent versions of FDI in the population of children with chronic pain and their parents. Method: The sample consists of 112 pairs of children and parents who were selected through available sampling method from child hospitals in Tehran. The Function Disability Inventory (FDI) along with KIDScreen, CBCL, YSR and VAS implemented on them. Results: The reliability results of FDI showed that the cronbach's alpha of the child and parent versions were 0.89 and 0.90, respectively, which indicates high alpha coefficients. Also, many run twice correlations of child and parent versions obtained in a meaningful and acceptable range (0.53 to 0.93). In addition, the highest correlation between FDI dimensions in two versions of the child and parent obtained 0.92 and 0.90, respectively. The convergent and divergent validity of the FDI showed that this questionnaire has a negative and significant correlation with the KIDScreen and has a positive and significant correlation with the CBCL, YSR and VAS questionnaires. The results of the exploratory factor analysis of this questionnaire revealed new factors. In the exploratory factor analysis identified four factors in the child's version and three factors in the parent's version and in the confirmation factor analysis, the fitting of these new factors confirmed. Conclusion: FDI has proper psychometric features in the population of children with chronic pain and their parents.

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Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 18 August 2022

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