Development and validation of the Scale for Staff-Family Partnership in Long-term Care (SSFPLC).

ABSTRACT:

Background

A partnership between staff and families is crucial to maintain nursing home residents' health and promote quality of care, and currently, there is a need for a measurement tool to assess the partnership.

Objectives

This study aimed to develop a tool for assessing the partnership between staff and the families of older adult nursing home residents from the perspective of staff members and to verify its reliability and validity.

Methods

The instrument was developed in the following four stages: (1) generation of an item pool via literature review and focus group interview, (2) experts' content validity analysis of 32 items, (3) a preliminary survey on 30 staff members and (4) validity and reliability tests of the instrument on 346 staff members in nursing ho

SUBMITTER: Jang HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285734 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature