Validity and reliability of the Turkish form of the attitudes questionnaire toward attention deficit hyperactivity disorder treatment (parent form)

INTRODUCTION: This study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of the Turkish form of the “Questionnaire on Attitudes Toward Treatment – Parents Form (QATT-Parents Form)” that was developed to determine the attitudes toward the treatment of parents of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients.
METHODS: This study was performed methodologically. QATT, developed by Ferrin (2012), was used with the permission of Maite Ferrin for data collection. One hundred and seventy-five volunteer parents of ADHD diagnosed children with DSM 5 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 component factor analysis.
RESULTS: The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the QATT-Parents Form was 0.80. The test-retest score correlation of the questionnaire was found to be 0.85.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: QATT-Parents Form was found to be valid and reliable in measuring parents’ attitudes toward ADHD treatment.