Psychometric Properties of the Families in Early Intervention Quality of Life Scale Turkish Version

The aim of this study is to adapt the Families in Early Intervention Quality of Life Scale (FEIQoL) into Turkish and determine its psychometric properties. Family members of 351 children with different types of disabilities participated in this study. During the adaptation process, confirmatory factor analysis determined that the factor structure was consistent with the original form. It was found that the criterion validity of the scale contained meaningful relationships with external criteria, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was calculated as .956 for the entire scale. Guttman’s split-half reliability supported the overall reliability of the scale, and item-total correlations indicated that the items adequately represented the scale as a whole. Significant differences between the mean scores of the lower and upper 27% groups revealed that the scale items had high discriminative power. In conclusion, the Turkish version of FEIQoL has been found to be a valid and reliable measurement tool.