Development and validation of a knowledge,attitude and practice scale for home caregivers to prevent oral frailty in the elderly
LI Linan
GU Yanmin
WANG Qianxin
LI Jing
Abstract：Objective To develop and test the reliability and validity of the"Knowledge,Attitude and Practice Scale for Home Caregivers to Prevent Oral Weakness in the Elderly".Methods Based on the knowledge-attitude-practice(KAP)theory and literature review,and after discussion within the research team,a pool of items for the KAP scale on preventing oral frailty in the elderly among home caregivers was formed.Then,referring to the results of expert consultation and pre-survey,the initial version of the scale was completed.From April to August 2023,192 home caregivers of the elderly who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria in a certain military unit were selected through convenience sampling for the investigation to verify the reliability and validity of the scale.Results The scale contains 32 items covering three dimensions.The overall Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.877;the test-retest reliability was 0.872;for the Content Validity Index(CVI),the item-level CVI(I-CVI)for each item ranged from 0.8 to 1.000,and the scale-level CVI(S-CVI)was 0.968.It can be seen that all items have good performance in representativeness and effectiveness.Construct-based validity:The results of line exploratory factor analysis(EFA)showed that the KMO value was 0.831,Cumulative variance contribution rate was 61.801%.A total of 195 questionnaires were distributed and 192 were recovered,which met the standard and showed an effective recovery rate of 98.5%.The questionnaire filling time for survey respondents is generally controlled within 15 minutes,which is highly recognized among the survey respondents.Conclusion The knowledge attitude and practice scale designed in this study demonstrated good validity and reliability,and is valuable for assessing the degree of knowledge,attitude and practice of home caregivers in preventing oral frailty in the elderly.
Keywords：home caregiversthe elderlyoral frailtyDelphireliabilityvalidityscale
Publication Date：2025-11-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-12-02(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 433-437 )