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Supporting parents: development of a tool to measure self-efficacy of parents with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- BLOOMFIELD Linda, KENDALL Sally, FORTUNA Sandra
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(4), December 2010, pp.303-309.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The development of a tool to measure the self-efficacy of parents with learning disabilities is described. The tool can be used to help to evaluate parenting initiatives specifically aimed at this parent group. A tool to measure parenting self-efficacy (TOPSE) was adapted to be accessible to parents with learning disabilities. Eighteen parents with mild to moderate learning disabilities and with a child under the age of 10 took part in this study to complete and comment on the tool with the help of a researcher from the community learning disabilities team. The outcome of the study is a revised parenting questionnaire consisting of 45 self-efficacy statements for use with parents with learning disabilities. This tool now needs to be tested on a larger sample of parents with learning disabilities.