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Translation and Psychometric Validation of Belief about Medication Questionnaire in Parents of Children with Difficult-to-Treat Nephrotic Syndrome

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Belief about Medications Questionnaire (BMQ) is a validated tool to assess the beliefs of patients about their medications. The objective was to translate the BMQ in Hindi, and to perform reliability and validity testing of Hindi version in Indian children (aged ≤ 12 y) with difficult-to-treat nephrotic syndrome (DTNS). The BMQ was first translated using the standard translation and back-translation procedure. The BMQ-Hindi was then applied to 110 children with DTNS. The Principal component analysis was performed, and Cronbach alpha (CA) was calculated. Construct validity was tested by assessing the correlation (Pearson r) between BMQ-Hindi scores and Reported Adherence to Medication (RAM-Hindi) scale. The BMQHindi displayed two-factorial (five-item each) structure similar to BMQ-English. The CA was 0.79 and 0.63 for ‘necessity’ and ‘concerns’ subscale, respectively and was comparable to BMQ-English. BMQ-Hindi is a valid and reliable tool for Indian children with DTNS to assess parental beliefs about their child’s medications.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, 110032, India

    Sandeep Kumar

  2. Department of Pediatrics, LHMC and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi, India

    Sandeep Kumar, Viswas Chhapola & Meha Verma

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VC conceptualized the article and analyzed the data; MV collected the data; SK analyzed the data and drafted the article; VC and SK reviewed the manuscript. SK is the guarantor for this paper.

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Kumar, S., Chhapola, V. & Verma, M. Translation and Psychometric Validation of Belief about Medication Questionnaire in Parents of Children with Difficult-to-Treat Nephrotic Syndrome. Indian J Pediatr 89, 74–76 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-021-03907-1

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