Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of an assessment tool for parenting and family function I (PAFFAT. ver.I). PAFFAT. ver.I was developed as an assessment tool to be used in a health interview of an infant's group health checkup and to evaluate parenting functions. The investigation was executed from July to October, 2001. The object districts were a town of 20,000 people and a village of 15,000 people in Shizuoka. An infant's checkup for one and half year olds and three-year old infants, 134 health interviews were recorded before and after using the PAFFAT.ver. I, and the changes of the content were examined. In addition, 119 PAFFAT.ver.I filled in by their parents were examined, and the following results were obtained. 1) It was suggested that the numbers of items and content of the PAFFAT.ver. I were adequate to answer for parents, both for the collection rate and the pass rate of the questionnaire. 2) The Cronbach's alpha of the PAFFAT.ver. I was 0.84. It was confirmed that the PAFFAT.ver. I had been used in health interviews as changes in the content of the health interviews and analysis of the conference of public health nurses after infant's health checkups. 3) In addition, the factor analysis was executed to decrease the number of items and to improve the utility, and eight factors had been extracted. 4) There was a significant relationship between the three factors and the necessity of passage observations by public health nurses. Therefore, it was thought that the PAFFAT.ver. I was reliable and valid as a questionnaire to assess parenting functions. It was selected carefully based up on these results and the PAFFAT.ver. II consisting of 35 items was developed.
