The Pediatric Inventory for Parents: Development of a short-form in fathers of children with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

BACKGROUND:The Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP) is a 42-item measure of paediatric parenting stress that results in 84 responses. Although this measure has been extensively validated, the number of items in the instrument may hinder clinical applicability. METHODS:The current study reports on the development of a short-form of the PIP using data from 344 fathers of children with type 1 diabetes. Recommendations for short-form development as well as item response theory (IRT) were used to construct a 13-item PIP Short-Form that results in 26 responses. RESULTS:The retained items were chosen to reflect the content domains of the original form of the PIP and demonstrated acceptable item fit under the partial credit model (PCM; Infit and Outfit indices closest to one and items with thresholds across the span of the latent trait). CONCLUSIONS:The PIP Short-Form may allow health care professionals to more feasibly assess paediatric parenting stress among parents of children with chronic health conditions. Future studies are needed to validate this new short-form.