Preprimary stress questionnaire: A tool to assess stress in preprimary school students مقالة

Aim: Students of preprimary age group are facing stress in school because of life events such as curricular and social factors. Prolonged stress of those children may lead to different types of health hazards in future life. Thus, the aim of this study was to construct a questionnaire which may be used to find out severity of stress among preprimary students. Methods: It was a descriptive study based on teacher report. Five hundred and five students were selected by random sampling for this study by questionnaire method, and the report was given by teachers. The questionnaire used for this study was preprimary stress questionnaire. After collection of data, the questionnaires were analyzed for Cronbach’s alpha (α) coefficient for reliability and content validity index (CVI) for validity of questionnaire. Result: Corrected item‑total correlation of all items was more than 0.3, so all items were included in questionnaire. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of questionnaire was found to be 0.925 and it lied between 0.87 and 1. Conclusion: After data analysis it was found that the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient value was excellent and CVI was acceptable. Thus, this questionnaire was a reliable and valid instrument for assessment of severity of stress in preprimary school students, so that the future health hazards of children are prevented.

Thus, the aim of this study was to construct a questionnaire which may be usedto fnd out severity of stress among preprimary students. Thus, this questionnaire was a reliableand valid instrument for assessment of severity of stress in preprimary school students, so that thefuture health hazards of children are prevented. The aim and objective of this study was to construct a reliable and valid questionnaire which can be used to assess severity of stress of preprimary school students. Preliminary survey The items were arranged as shown in Table 1 and administered to two teachers involved for 38 preprimary school students of 2014–2015 academic sessions to check their applicability and face validity during face-to-face session. Results This study showed the severity of stress in preprimary school students by questionnaire method though it was a teacher report. [17,18] The purpose of this present study was to determine the validity and reliability of a newly developed instrument PPSQ, which could be used in identifying severity of stress among preprimary school students. [21,22] The findings in this study were evidence to support and suggest that the PPSQ was a reliable instrument that could be used in the future to identify severity of stress among preprimary school students. It is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used in the future to identify the severity of stress among preprimary school students so that different behavioral problems of children that usually develop in childhood can be prevented.