Background: Researchers have determined that illness representation, including identifying the illness, understanding the cause, and knowing the risk, may influence asthma symptom management.
Purpose: The purpose of study was to determine reliability and factor structure for child's version of illness representation.
Methods: A Maximum Likelihood factor analysis was used to examine reliability and factor structure of the child version of illness representation (CIR) scale. The sample included teens ages 12 to 18 from United States (N=331) with asthma.
Results: The reliability was 0.79. Eight factors loaded with the most percentage of variance.
Conclusions: The perceptions of teens on the health care provider's prescribing practices may shed light on medication adherence. More research is needed to examine CIRS function in a study on medication adherence.
Keywords: asthma; illness representation; medication adherence; symptom management.
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