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Developing a scale to measure parental attitudes towards preschool speech and language therapy services

Glogowska, M.; Campbell, R.; Peters, T. J.; Roulstone, S.; Enderby, P.; Enderby, Pam; Campbell, Rona; Roulstone, Sue; Peters, Tim; Glogowska, Margaret

Authors

M. Glogowska

R. Campbell

T. J. Peters

P. Enderby

Pam Enderby

Rona Campbell

Sue Roulstone

Tim Peters

Margaret Glogowska



Abstract

In the past decade, there has been growing recognition of the need to involve clients in decisions about the healthcare they receive and in the evaluation of services offered. In health services research, survey and scaling methods have become important tools for research into 'consumer views' and the perspectives of people receiving healthcare. In spite of the increase in recent years in the participation of parents in their children's Speech and Language Therapy (SLT), there has been little attempt to investigate parents' perceptions and opinions of the services they receive. Moreover, there has been no previous attempt to derive a scale to measure these attitudes. The paper reports a study that explored the attitudes to therapy of 81 parents whose preschool children were receving SLT intervention. Factor analysis of 12 items on a questionnaire revealed three issues salient in parental attitudes to therapy: practical help, emotional support and the perceived effectiveness of the service. The validity of these factors was supported by other findings from the questionnaire. The properties of the resulting scales are discussed and the ways in which they might be further refined and developed for use in SLT are suggested.

Citation

Enderby, P., Roulstone, S., Peters, T. J., Campbell, R., Glogowska, M., Enderby, P., …Glogowska, M. (2001). Developing a scale to measure parental attitudes towards preschool speech and language therapy services. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 36(4), 503-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/13682820110075006

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Dec 31, 2001
Journal International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
Print ISSN 1368-2822
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Issue 4
Pages 503-513
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13682820110075006
Keywords parental attitudes, pre-school speech and language therapy
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1089209
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13682820110075006