Sela-Katz Pnina, Werner Perla
Registered Nurse, Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, Israel.
Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Israel.
Int J Palliat Nurs. 2018 Mar 2;24(3):108-114. doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2018.24.3.108.
Several instruments are available to assess knowledge about hospice care, but none specifically address knowledge about home hospice for persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
To develop and validate the Alzheimer's Disease Home Hospice Knowledge Scale (AD-HHK-S).
A total of 107 Israeli family caregivers of persons with dementia (mean age=71.2; 73% female) participated in the study.
The AD-HHK-S included 28 true/false items assessing 3 areas of knowledge: knowledge about hospice, knowledge about home hospice, and knowledge about home hospice for AD. Good internal reliability was found, with Cronbach alpha ranging from 0.72 to 0.85. Good face, construct and predictive validity were found.
The AD-HHK-S proved to be a valid and reliable tool to assess knowledge about hospice care in the area of AD. It might provide an effective tool for palliative care nurses to communicate with family caregivers of persons with AD at the end of life.
有多种工具可用于评估临终关怀知识，但没有一种专门针对阿尔茨海默病（AD）患者的居家临终关怀知识。
开发并验证阿尔茨海默病居家临终关怀知识量表（AD-HHK-S）。
共有107名以色列痴呆症患者的家庭照顾者（平均年龄 = 71.2岁；73%为女性）参与了该研究。
AD-HHK-S包括28个是非题，评估三个知识领域：临终关怀知识、居家临终关怀知识以及AD患者的居家临终关怀知识。发现具有良好的内部信度，克朗巴哈系数在0.72至0.85之间。发现具有良好的表面效度、结构效度和预测效度。
AD-HHK-S被证明是评估AD领域临终关怀知识的有效且可靠的工具。它可能为姑息治疗护士在生命末期与AD患者的家庭照顾者沟通提供一种有效的工具。
