Comorbidity of behavioral problems and parental acceptance-rejection in children diagnosed with chest discomfort, palpitations, vasovagal syncope, and underlying heart disease: a multiple case-control study

Table 1 Cronbach’s alpha values of subscales of Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire according to cardiac symptomatology, parents filling questionnaire, children’ age

	Item, no	Groups of cardiac symptomatology					Parents filling the Questionnaire		Children’ age, yr
		Control	Palpitation	Chest Pain	Vasovagal Syncope	Having a cardiac disease	Mother	Father	< 12	≥ 12	Overall
n											316
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Externalizing problems	10	0.70	0.65	0.70	0.78	0.70	0.70	0.72	0.69	0.72	0.71
Internalizing problems	10	0.50	0.61	0.59	0.65	0.60	0.57	0.64	0.68	0.55	0.60
Total problem score	20	0.70	0.73	0.71	0.83	0.78	0.73	0.79	0.76	0.76	0.76
Prosocial score	5	0.66	0.57	0.76	0.64	0.61	0.64	0.71	0.69	0.66	0.67
Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire
Warmth/Affection	20	0.74	0.80	0.72	0.94	0.80	0.81	0.85	0.77	0.84	0.82
Hostility/Aggression	15	0.88	0.77	0.83	0.88	0.76	0.84	0.83	0.73	0.86	0.83
Indifference/Neglect	15	0.75	0.66	0.79	0.83	0.67	0.77	0.73	0.71	0.77	0.75
Undifferentiated Rejection	10	0.58	0.61	0.74	0.81	0.62	0.74	0.69	0.49	0.77	0.71
Total PARQ score	60	0.91	0.90	0.91	0.94	0.91	0.91	0.92	0.87	0.93	0.92
Control	13	0.70	0.35	0.71	0.67	0.44	0.63	0.60	0.43	0.66	0.61

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