Department of Psychology, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072 Australia.
Psychol Health. 2010 Jul;25(6):713-31. doi: 10.1080/08870440902893724.
The purpose of this study was to develop an empirically derived multi-item scale of care tasks performed by young people in the context of family illness/disability: the Youth Activities of Caregiving Scale (YACS). A total of 135 youngsters aged 10-24 years with an ill/disabled family member completed questionnaires. Factor analyses performed on the YACS yielded four factors, instrumental care, social/emotional care, personal/intimate care and domestic/household care, accounting for 57.78% of the variance. The internal reliabilities of all factors ranged from 0.74 to 0.92. Higher scores on the YACS related to higher youth age and several caregiving context variables (i.e. household type [single or dual-parent household], relationship with care-recipient and perceived choice in caregiving). Higher scores on the YACS also related to care-recipient illness/disability variables (onset, functional impairment, prognosis, predictability and illness/disability type). Strong positive correlations between the YACS and a conceptually related measure of young caregiving experiences provided good convergent validity data. Criterion validity was established with evidence that the YACS predicted youth adjustment in the domains of health and prosocial behaviour.
本研究旨在开发一个针对年轻人在家庭疾病/残疾背景下执行的护理任务的实证衍生的多项目量表：青年护理活动量表（YACS）。共有 135 名年龄在 10-24 岁之间、有患病/残疾家庭成员的年轻人完成了问卷调查。对 YACS 进行的因素分析得出了四个因素，即工具性护理、社会/情感护理、个人/亲密护理和家庭/家务护理，占总方差的 57.78%。所有因素的内部信度范围在 0.74 到 0.92 之间。YACS 得分越高，与青年年龄和几个护理背景变量（即家庭类型[单亲或双亲家庭]、与护理对象的关系以及在护理中的感知选择）有关。YACS 得分越高，与护理对象的疾病/残疾变量（发病、功能障碍、预后、可预测性和疾病/残疾类型）也越相关。YACS 与青年护理经验的概念相关的衡量标准之间存在强烈的正相关，提供了良好的收敛有效性数据。通过证据表明 YACS 可以预测青年在健康和亲社会行为领域的调整，确立了效标效度。
