Man D W
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PR China.
Brain Inj. 1998 Mar;12(3):245-54. doi: 10.1080/026990598122728.
This is an increasing recognition of the influential roles played by the families of brain damaged persons in rehabilitation. Although these families are expected to take up the burden of care, they are usually ill-prepared to face this long-term process. This preliminary study of empowerment is aimed at helping Hong Kong Chinese families with a brain damaged member to regain a sense of mastery over the brain damage, their environment and their lives. The impact of brain damage on families was explored in order to propose a model to guide the development of assessment and intervention, as well as for the justification of practice by health care professionals. A 52-item instrument, the empowerment questionnaire, was developed through explorative factor analysis of responses of 211 families that included a brain damaged member. This analysis yielded four interpretable factors: efficacy: knowledge: support and aspiration and they demonstrated high validity reliability.
人们越来越认识到脑损伤患者的家庭在康复过程中所起的重要作用。尽管这些家庭被期望承担起护理的重担，但他们通常没有做好面对这一长期过程的准备。这项关于赋权的初步研究旨在帮助有脑损伤成员的香港华裔家庭重新获得对脑损伤、他们的环境和生活的掌控感。探讨了脑损伤对家庭的影响，以便提出一个模型来指导评估和干预的发展，并为医护人员的实践提供依据。通过对211个有脑损伤成员的家庭的回答进行探索性因素分析，开发了一份包含52个条目的赋权问卷。该分析产生了四个可解释的因素：效能、知识、支持和期望，并且它们显示出很高的效度和信度。
