Park Eun-Young
Department of Secondary Special Education, College of Education, Jeonju University, Jeonju 55069, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 May 26;18(11):5689. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115689.
This study was conducted to determine the construct validity and reliability of the Caregiving Difficulty Scale, a tool developed to measure difficulties experienced by parents of children with cerebral palsy. To this end, a survey was conducted with 215 mothers of children with cerebral palsy, and the resultant data were analyzed. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed to verify the construct validity of this scale, and the intra-item fit value was calculated for reliability analysis. Validity analysis confirmed that a bi-factor model comprising four sub-factors, Concern for the Child, Impact on Self, Support for Caregiving, and Social and Economic Strain, was suitable for the Caregiving Difficulty Scale. In addition, the reliability analysis results showed that the reliability coefficients of three of these areas, excluding Social and Economic Strain, and the reliability of the entire scale were acceptable. Therefore, the Caregiving Difficulty Scale is an appropriate tool to measure the burden of caregiving for children with cerebral palsy, and the findings emphasize the need to improve its reliability by comparing sub-factors' reliability.
本研究旨在确定照顾困难量表的结构效度和信度，该量表是为测量脑瘫患儿父母所经历的困难而开发的工具。为此，对215名脑瘫患儿的母亲进行了调查，并对所得数据进行了分析。进行验证性因素分析以验证该量表的结构效度，并计算项目内拟合值以进行信度分析。效度分析证实，一个由四个子因素组成的双因素模型，即对孩子的关注、对自身的影响、照顾支持以及社会和经济压力，适用于照顾困难量表。此外，信度分析结果表明，除社会和经济压力外，这些领域中的三个领域的信度系数以及整个量表的信度是可以接受的。因此，照顾困难量表是测量脑瘫患儿照顾负担的合适工具，研究结果强调需要通过比较子因素的信度来提高其信度。
