Development of an item pool for a patient reported outcome measure of resilience for people living with dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Policies to support people living with dementia increasingly focus on strengths-based approaches, highlighting the importance of building resilience. This research responds to the lack of a suitable resilience measure for people with dementia. It develops a pool of items to inform a new measure of resilience for this population.

Methods

A conceptual model and associated data informed the item generation of the draft resilience measure. Regular meetings with professionals (n = 7) discussed response-scale formatting, content and face validity, leading to refinement and item reduction. Cognitive interviews with people living with dementia (n = 11) then examined the face and content validity of items and the suitability of response-scale formatting. The

SUBMITTER: Roberts JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10533765 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature