Given C W, Given B, Stommel M, Collins C, King S, Franklin S
Department of Family Practice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1313.
Res Nurs Health. 1992 Aug;15(4):271-83. doi: 10.1002/nur.4770150406.
The development and testing of a multidimensional instrument to assess the reactions of family members caring for elderly persons with physical impairments, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer is reported. Forty items were administered to a sample of 377 caregivers of persons with physical impairments and Alzheimer's disease. Five dimensions of caregivers' reactions were identified through exploratory factor analysis. Using confirmatory factor analysis on an independent sample (N = 377), these dimensions were tested for factorial invariance across spouse and nonspouse caregivers and between caregivers of persons with cancer and those caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease. The subscales also had a high level of factorial invariance across a three-wave panel study (N = 185). The subscales appeared consistent with first order tests of construct validity.
本文报告了一种多维工具的开发与测试，该工具用于评估照顾身体有损伤的老年人、患有阿尔茨海默病的老年人以及患癌症老年人的家庭成员的反应。对377名身体有损伤和患有阿尔茨海默病患者的照顾者样本进行了40个项目的测试。通过探索性因素分析确定了照顾者反应的五个维度。在一个独立样本（N = 377）上使用验证性因素分析，对这些维度在配偶照顾者和非配偶照顾者之间以及癌症患者照顾者和阿尔茨海默病患者照顾者之间的因素不变性进行了测试。在一项三波面板研究（N = 185）中，这些分量表也具有较高水平的因素不变性。这些分量表似乎与结构效度的一阶测试一致。
