Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Ph.D. Student in Epidemiology, Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
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Professor of Epidemiology, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Research Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Shiraz university of medical sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
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Professor of Epidemiology, Research Centre for Health Sciences, Institute of Health, School of health, Department of Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Drug addiction is one of the social and health problems of the world. Children are the most vulnerable social stratum in the problem of addiction. The study aimed to design a questionnaire for children's addiction tendencies and to study the psychometric characteristics of Iranian children.
Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study that was conducted in 2023 among 400 students of Shiraz city (Iran) with multi-stage sampling (stratified-cluster-simple random). Inclusion criteria were students, residents of Shiraz city, studying in the first or second year of high school, and exclusion criteria were non-cooperation and unwillingness to participate in the study. Validity was determined through face, content, and construct with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and reliability through Cronbach's alpha and Intraclass correlation coefficient(ICC). Moreover, SPSSv.26 was applied for further analysis.
Findings: The average age of the participants was 15.39±1.94. The face and content validity of the scale was quantitatively and qualitatively assessed and confirmed and showed the construct validity through EFA; the scale has 30 items with four factors that explain 40% of the total extracted variance. Cronbach's alpha and ICC of the factors indicated strong to excellent reliability of the scale.
Conclusion: The results showed that the current questionnaire has good validity and reliability, so it may apply with confidence to study the addiction tendency and screening of Iranian children aged 12 to 18 years.
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