Kunz Lena K, Scheibe Susanne, Wisse Barbara, Boerner Kathrin, Zemlin Claudia
Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Department of Management and Marketing, Durham University, UK.
Innov Aging. 2020 Jun 24;4(4):igaa023. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igaa023. eCollection 2020.
Care professionals differ in how they experience and respond to dementia caregiving. To explain such differences, we developed a new measure: the Dementia Mindset Scale. This scale captures the extent to which care professionals view dementia as stable and fixed (akin to the biomedical perspective) or as flexible and malleable (akin to the person-centered approach).
We conducted four studies to develop the scale. We tested items for comprehensibility, assessed the scale's factorial structure and psychometric properties, and investigated its predictive validity for care professionals' well-being.
A new scale with a two-factor structure-distinguishing a malleable dementia mindset from a fixed dementia mindset-was developed. Results showed good convergent and divergent validity. Moreover, the dementia mindsets predicted aspects of job-related well-being in care professionals.
The scale allows for the assessment of individual differences in how care professionals see dementia. This insight can be used to improve interventions aimed at enhancing care professionals' well-being and quality of care.
护理专业人员在如何体验和应对痴呆症护理方面存在差异。为了解释这些差异，我们开发了一种新的测量工具：痴呆症思维模式量表。该量表反映了护理专业人员将痴呆症视为稳定不变（类似于生物医学观点）还是灵活可变（类似于以人为本的方法）的程度。
我们进行了四项研究来开发该量表。我们测试了条目的可理解性，评估了量表的因子结构和心理测量特性，并研究了其对护理专业人员幸福感的预测效度。
开发出了一种具有双因子结构的新量表，该结构区分了可变的痴呆症思维模式和固定的痴呆症思维模式。结果显示出良好的聚合效度和区分效度。此外，痴呆症思维模式预测了护理专业人员与工作相关的幸福感的各个方面。
该量表能够评估护理专业人员看待痴呆症方式上的个体差异。这一见解可用于改进旨在提高护理专业人员幸福感和护理质量的干预措施。
