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Coping with late-life challenges
 — development and validation of the Care-Receiver Efficacy Scale
Author(s)Enid O Cox, Kathy E Green, Honglan Seo
Journal titleThe Gerontologist, vol 46, no 5, October 2006
Pagespp 640-649
Sourcehttp://www.geron.org
KeywordsFamily care ; Adjustment ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
AnnotationMeasures are lacking that address the challenges that people think they face in their roles as older care receivers. However, the development of a sense of efficacy in this role by mentally competent care receivers is critical to successful partnerships between caregivers and care receivers. This article reports the development and psychometric analysis of the Care-Receiver Efficacy Scale (CRES). Content validity, internal consistency, reliability, factor structure and convergent validity were assessed in a pilot study, expert review and field administration with 177 participants. CRES comprises five sub-scales, three with evidence of strong reliability, but only marginal reliability for the other two. There was strong support for content validity from expert review, and moderate support from the relationship between empirical and expert judgment of item location. Support for validity was also found from correlation with the Geriatric Depression Scale - Short Form (GDS) and the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale. The CRES may be useful as an outcome measure for psychosocial behavioural interventions aimed at increasing the capacity of care receivers to direct and improve their own care. Future revision and validation are important to optimising the utility of the CRES. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-070109229 A
ClassmarkP6:SJ: DR: 4C: 7T

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