Development and reliability and validity test of the care knowledge and skills demand scale for family caregivers of disabled elderly people
ZHANG Sisi
HE Yanhong
DUAN Danping
WU Landi
XIAO Xiaoling
ZHONG Yu
Abstract：Objective:To develop a care knowledge and skills demand scale for family caregivers of disabled elderly people and test its reliability and validity.Methods:The scale item pool was constructed through semi-structured interviews and a literature review,and the items were screened using a Delphi expert letter inquiry to form the initial version of the scale.The initial version of the scale was used to conduct a preliminary survey of 226 family caregivers of elderly people with disabilities,and a provisional version of the scale was formed following item analysis.The provisional version of the scale was used to conduct a questionnaire survey on 329 family caregivers of disabled elderly people and test its reliability and validity.Finally,the formal version of the scale was formed.Results:The care knowledge and skills demand scale for family caregivers of disabled elderly people includes 5 dimensions and 37 items.The content validity index at the scale level was 0.973,and the content validity index at the item level was 0.833.Exploratory factor analysis extracted 5 factors and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 73.23%.The total Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.966,and the Cronbach's α coefficient of each factor was 0.932～0.945.The test-retest reliability was 0.862.Conclusions:The constructed care knowledge and skills demand scale for family caregivers of disabled elderly people have good reliability and validity,which could provide a demand assessment tool for medical institutions and nursing facilities to carry out care knowledge and skills training.
Keywords：disabled elderlyfamily caregiverscare knowledgecare skillsscalereliabilityvaliditynursing
Publication Date：2025-07-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 2649-2655 )