Abstract
The child surgery worries questionnaire. The need for assessing children who are going operated and the lack of assessment instruments with appropriate psychometric properties justify the development of valid and reliable tests. We carried out a pilot study on the Cuestionario de Preocupaciones sobre Cirugía Infantil (CPCI), created to assess the children's worries about surgery. The 29 items original version of the questionnaire was administered to a sample of 382 subjects, both sexes, aged from 11 to 14 years. The results showed worries about (1) hospitalization, (2) medical procedures, and (3) illness and its negative consequences. The rotated factorial pattern indicated that these three factors explained 32.945 % of the variance. The final version of the questionnaire consisted of 23 items.
