Development and validation of a comfort-measuring scale for elderly individuals with chronic conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ageing is associated with chronic diseases and successive losses, which affect the comfort experienced by the elderly. Hence, in that population, comfort must be viewed as a need, and health care professionals (particularly nurses) should promote it through their interventions. This work aimed at developing a scale to assess comfort in elderly individuals with chronic conditions and determining the aforesaid scale's psychometric characteristics (validity and reliability), while ascertaining the comfort levels experienced by the participants.

Methods

Our sample comprised 454 chronically ill elderly individuals, either hospitalized, or in residential care/at home. As regards descriptive statistics, we calculated various summary measures. Validity was appraised via e

SUBMITTER: Marques R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11969820 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature