Research Methods: Transition Readiness Assessment QuestionnaireThe Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ): Its Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity
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Survey Administration
We collected TRAQ responses from 526 adolescent respondents ranging in age from 14 to 26 years; 305 adolescents comprised the first sample, collected in 2011, and 221 adolescents comprised the second sample, collected in 2012 (Figure). The surveys were collected during clinical care from a convenience sample of adolescents attending the University of Florida, JaxHATS in Jacksonville, FL; the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center at Boston Children's Hospital and the University of North Carolina (UNC)
Results
The demographic characteristics of the samples for stage 1 (item reduction and EFA sample) and stage 2 (CFA sample) are summarized in Table 1. A total sample of 305 AYA were available for step 1 of the item reduction analysis; of these, 269 had no missing data and were available for EFA. Overall, 16.9% were under 18 years of age. Of those with race data reported, 49.0% were white, 39.6% were African American, and 11.4% were other. Sex was missing in one-quarter of the surveys; however, of those
Discussion
This study builds on our initial development of the TRAQ, when we identified candidate items and conducted initial item reduction and validation. In the current analyses, we analyze TRAQ data on over 500 additional respondents from 3 academic clinical centers to further explore and refine the factor structure of the instrument. We eliminated items that either did not apply to all respondents or had high rates of missing values. We used EFA to identify a 20-item scale with 5 subscales. We
Acknowledgments
Partial support for this work was provided for Dr Sawicki, NHLBI, K23 HL105541-01A1, and for Dr Wood, Florida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services, contract 6119-1307-00-B.
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