Engelsk titel: Translation and psychometric testing of the Family Collaboration Scale
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Författare:
Moholt, Jill-Marit
;
Hanssen, Tove Aminda
Email: tove.aminda.hanssen@unn.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 28
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 17120220
Sammanfattning
Background: The Family Collaboration Scale (FCS) instrument has been developed to assess relatives’ experiences of the collaboration with healthcare personnel when a frail elderly person is admitted to an acute hospital ward.
Objective: The purpose of the study was to translate the FCS from Danish to Norwegian. We also wanted to test the psychometric properties of the translated version on a sample of the relatives of frail elderly patients who had been admitted to an acute hospital ward for medical treatment.
Method: The instrument was translated according to international criteria. The Norwegian version has been tested in a cross-sectional study with 147 relatives of patients over the age of 65. Reliability is tested through analyses of internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Validity is assessed through the evaluation of content and construct validity.
Results: Reliability analysed using Cronbach’s alpha and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) showed values above 0.7 for the five original dimensions. A panel of experts and relatives of patients rated the content validity as satisfactory. Evaluating construct validity using exploratory factor analysis showed that the original dimension structure was recreated to some extent, but three new factors emerged.
Conclusion: The Norwegian version of the FCS is essentially a reliable and valid instrument for measuring relatives’ experiences of the collaboration with healthcare personnel after a frail elderly person is admitted to an acute hospital ward. Before using the instrument in research and practice, we recommend further testing on a larger sample for further assessment of construct validity.