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Psychometric Testing of the Sidani and Doran Therapeutic Self-Care Scale in a Home Health Care Population.
- Source :
- Journal of Nursing Measurement; 2016, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p92-107, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Background and Purpose: Self-care is a central goal of home health (HH) nursing care. The study purpose was to assess psychometric performance of the Therapeutic Self-Care Scale (TSCS) in a U.S. HH population. Methods: TSCS reliability was assessed with Cronbach's alpha and test-retest analyses (n = 59). Convergent validity testing and principal components analysis (PCA) were performed. Results: After elimination of 2 items, internal consistency reliability was acceptable (α = .804) and test-retest reliability was high (intraclass correlation = .94; p < .001). Convergent validity analyses were inconclusive. PCA found 2 underlying dimensions consistent with a conceptual difference between self-care and self-management. Conclusions: A valid, reliable measure of self-care/ management would be useful for measurement of HH nursing outcomes. The TSCS holds promise but needs further refinement before it can serve this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONCEPTUAL structures
STATISTICAL correlation
FACTOR analysis
HOME care services
HOME nursing
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL records
MEDICARE
NURSING models
RESEARCH evaluation
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
HEALTH self-care
MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
INTRACLASS correlation
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10613749
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Nursing Measurement
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114833225
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1891/1061-3749.24.1.92