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The Carers' Needs Assessment for Dementia (CAN-D)
— development, validity and reliability | | Author(s) | Johannes Wancata, Monika Krautgartner, Julia Berner |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 17, no 3, September 2005 |
| Pages | pp 393-406 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Reliability ; Austria. |
| Annotation | A variety of interventions are available to support caregivers of dementia patients. For the purposes of service planning, the authors developed an instrument to assess the needs of these caregivers and to determine whether needs are met. The reliability and validity of the new instrument was also investigated. The development of the Carers' Needs Assessment for Dementia (CAN-D) was based on in-depth interviews and a focus group. The combined inter-rater and test-retest reliability was investigated among 45 Austrian dementia caregivers. Correlations of the CNA-D with the Zarit Burden Inventory were used to analyse concurrent validity. Content validity was investigated by performing a separate survey among 40 caregivers and 40 professionals. The CNA-D is a semi-structured research interview that includes 18 problem areas, for each of which the CNA-D offers several possible interventions. The relevance of the problem areas and the interventions (content validity) was confirmed by most of the study participants. Significant positive associations were found between the total score of the Zarit Burden Inventory and the number of problems and the number of unmet needs according to the CNA-D. The agreement between the interviewers was "excellent" in 73.7% of the problem areas and in 69.9% of the interventions. The CNA-D is a valid and reliable instrument for comprehensively assessing the needs of dementia caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051116204 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: IK: 4C: 5HC: 76A |
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