The validity and reliability of turkish form of the questionnaire on attitudes towards treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (parents form)

This study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of the Turkish Form of the "Questionnaire on Attitudes Towards Treatment- Parents Form (QATT-Parents Form)" that developed to determine the attitudes towards treatment of parents of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder patients. This study was performed as methodologically. QATT, developed by Ferrin et al (2012), was used with the permission of Maite Ferrin for data collection. 175 volunteer parents of ADHD diagnosed children with DSM V diagnosis criteria who applied to Gaziantep Cengiz Gökçek Gynecology and Children's Disease Hospital and Gaziantep University Şahinbey Training and Research Hospital. After the language equivalence of the scale was given, opinions were received from the experts for scope validity. For the test-retest reliability, 30 samples from the same sample were re-scaled after 15-21 days. The construct validity of the scale was examined by Principal compenent factor analysis. The cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the Questionnaire on Attitudes Towards Treatment- Parents Form was 0.80. The test- retest score correlation of the questionaire was found to be 0.85. As a result, Questionnaire on Attitudes Towards Treatment- Parents Form was found to be valid and reliable in measuring parents' attitudes towards ADHD treatment. Key Words: Validity, Reliability, The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attitude,Nursing