Development and reliability and validity of Frailty Assessment Scale for Elderly Trauma Patients
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20200905-05227
- VernacularTitle:老年创伤患者虚弱评估量表的编制及信效度检验
- Author:
Haitao YU
1
;
Yunlian WU
;
Li CAI
;
Yun LIU
Author Information
1. 四川省宜宾市第二人民医院重症医学科 644000
- Keywords:
Aged;
Frailty;
Trauma;
Delphi method;
Reliability;
Validity
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2021;27(5):587-591
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To develop Frailty Assessment Scale for Elderly Trauma Patients and verify its reliability and validity, aiming to assess the frailty level of emergency elderly trauma patients within 24 hours of admission.Methods:From February to May 2019, the initial Frailty Assessment Scale for Elderly Trauma Patients was constructed through literature summary, team brain storming and Delphi expert consultation. From June to December 2019, a total of 190 elderly trauma patients who were admitted to Emergency Department of the Second People's Hospital of Yibin in Sichuan Province were selected by the convenient sampling method. The Initial Frailty Assessment Scale and Frailty Index Scale constructed in this study were used to investigate the frailty. The items of scales were screened by the correlation coefficient method and the critical ratio method, validity of scales was evaluated by the structural validity and the correlation degree of validity criterion, and reliability of scale was analyzed by the retest reliability and internal consistency.Results:The final version of Frailty Assessment Scale for Elderly Trauma Patients constructed in this study contained a total of 24 items. The exploratory factor analysis extracted a total of 5 common factors, and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 65.92%. After verification, the correlation coefficient between this scale and the Frailty Index Scale was 0.751, the test-retest reliability was 0.762, and Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.87.Conclusions:Frailty Assessment Scale for Elderly Trauma Patients compiled by this research has concise entries, good reliability and validity, which can be promoted and applied in emergency injury assessment of elderly trauma patients in China.
