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Development and psychometric testing of the Attitudes Toward Mental Illness in Pediatric Patients Scale
Christina Streich Villanueva1, Shari Hughes Scott, Cathie E Guzzetta
1Center for Pediatric Psychiatry, Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. christina.villanueva@childrens.com
Problem:
To develop the Attitudes toward Mental Illness in Pediatric Patients (ATMIPP) Scale measuring nonpsychiatric provider attitudes toward pediatric patients with mental illness.
Methods:
Responses from 492 nonpsychiatric and 30 psychiatric providers were evaluated for reliability and validity. Cronbach's alpha was used for reliability while factor analysis and known-groups technique were used for validity.
Findings:
The scale's internal consistency was 0.85. Factor analysis revealed three factors (Comfort, Tolerance, and Unbiasness) accounting for 74.5% of the variance. Compared to nonpsychiatric providers, psychiatric providers had significantly more positive attitudes on the ATMIPP (p < 0.001).
Conclusions:
The ATMIPP has evidence of reliability and validity for the sampled population.
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