Development of the Elderly Inpatient Falls Prevention Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Scale for Full-time Caregivers and its reliability and validity
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20230306-00838
- VernacularTitle:专职陪护预防老年住院患者跌倒知信行量表的编制及信效度检验
- Author:
Hui JIANG
1
;
Yanan ZHU
;
Fujuan CHEN
;
Zhimei LIU
;
Fuguo YANG
Author Information
1. 青岛大学护理学院，青岛 266011
- Keywords:
Aged;
Elderly inpatients;
Full-time caregivers;
Falls prevention;
Scale development
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2023;29(20):2680-2686
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To develop the Elderly Inpatient Falls Prevention Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Scale for Full-time Caregivers, so as to provide a measurement tool for investigating the current situation of knowledge, attitude, and practice of full-time caregivers in preventing falls in elderly inpatients.Methods:A test version of the scale was formed through literature review, expert consultation, and pre investigation. From January to April 2022, convenience sampling was used to select 312 full-time caregivers from 5 accompanying companies in 6 ClassⅢ Grade A hospitals in Qingdao as the research subject, to test the reliability and validity, and to revise the final scale. A total of 312 questionnaires were distributed, and 300 valid questionnaires were collected, with an effective response rate of 96.154% (300/312) .Results:The Elderly Inpatient Falls Prevention Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Scale for Full-time Caregivers had a total of 35 items, including 3 dimensions, including 11 items in the knowledge dimension, 10 items in the attitude dimension, and 14 items in the practice dimension. The total Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.926, with Cronbach's α coefficients of 0.914 to 0.944 for each dimension, 0.998 for test-retest reliability coefficient, and 0.681 for split half reliability coefficient of the scale. The content validity index of the scale level was 0.984, and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 59.688%.Conclusions:The reliability and validity of the Elderly Inpatient Falls Prevention Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Scale for Full-time Caregivers are good, and can be used as a tool to evaluate the full-time caregiver knowledge, attitude and practice for preventing falls in elderly inpatients.
