Highlights
- •The stages of the study show that the Epilepsy Parental Seizure Burden Scale (EPSBS) is a valid, reliable measurement tool.
- •EPSBS can be used as a measurement tool in studies designed to determine care burden and socioeconomic burden in epilepsy.
Abstract
Objective
It is common for parents to shoulder the burden of care for their children with chronic
diseases. However, there are no robust scales to measure the burden of care of parents
of children with epilepsy. This study aimed to develop the “Epileptic Seizure Parental
Burden Scale (ESPBS)” and evaluate its psychometric properties.
Materials and methods
This was a methodological study. The sample consisted of 333 voluntary parents of
children with epilepsy. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social
Sciences (SPSS v. 25) at a significance level of p < .05. Content validity, item-total correlation, explanatory factor analysis (EFA),
confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the “upper- and lower-27 percent rule,” Cronbach's
alpha coefficient, and the split-half reliability method were used for psychometric
analysis.
Results
The scale consisted of 15 items and two subscales. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was
0. 961, for which Bartlett's test of sphericity was significant (X2 = 5079.527, p < .001), indicating sampling adequacy and correlation between the items for factor
analysis. The scale had item-total item correlations of 0.311 to 0.741. The Explanatory
Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed a two-factor structure. According to the confirmatory
factor analysis, x2/df, GFI, AGFI, CFI, and RMSEA were 2.012, 0.93, 0.91, 0.97, and
0.055, respectively. These values were very close to a good fit. The items had factor
loadings of 0.508 to 0.890. The total scale explained 60.432% of the total variance.
The scale had a Cronbach's alpha of 0.93. The split-half reliability indicated a significant
(p < .001) and high (r = 0.890) correlation.
Conclusion
The Epileptic Seizure Parental Burden Scale (ESPBS) has high psychometric properties.
It is a valid and reliable instrument that can measure the epileptic seizure burden
of parents of children with epilepsy.
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Publication history
Published online: November 30, 2022
Accepted:
November 17,
2022
Received in revised form:
October 24,
2022
Received:
June 13,
2022
Publication stage
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