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The Therapeutic Environment Screening Survey for Nursing Homes (TESS-NH)
— an observational instrument for assessing the physical environment of institutional settings for persons with dementia | | Author(s) | Philip D Sloane, C Madeline Mitchell, Gerald Weisman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 2, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp S69-S78 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Architectural design ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A US National Institute on Aging workgroup identified and subsequently revised items that evaluated exit control, maintenance, cleanliness, safety, orientation/cuing, privacy, unit autonomy, outdoor access, lighting, noise, visual/tactile stimulation, space/seating, and familiarity/homelikeness. The final instrument contains 84 discrete items and one global rating. A summary scale, the Special Care Unit Environmental Quality Scale (SCUEQS) consists of 18 items. Lighting items were validated using portable light meters. Concurrent criterion validation compared SCUEQS scores with the Professional Environmental Assessment Protocol (PEAP). The SCUEQS demonstrated an interrater reliability of .93, test-retest of .88, and an internal consistency of .81-.83. Light meter readings correlated significantly with the Therapeutic Environment Screening Survey for Nursing Homes (TESS-NH) lighting items, and the SCUEQS correlated significantly with global PEAP ratings. The TESS-NH efficiently assesses discrete elements of the physical environment and has strong reliability and validity. The SCUEQS provides a quantitative measure of environmental quality in institutional settings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020614210 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: YB3: 4C: 7T |
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