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| Development and initial testing of the Person-centered Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT) | | Author(s) | David Edvardsson, Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh, Rhonda Nay |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 22, no 1, February 2010 |
| Pages | pp 101-108 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg doi:10.1017/S1041610209990688 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Reasoning ; Management [care] ; Questionnaires ; Performance ; Evaluation ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Person-centred care is increasingly regarded as being synonymous with best quality care. However, the concept and its precise meaning is a subject of debate, and reliable and valid measurement tools are lacking. This article describes the development and initial testing of a new self-report assessment scale, the Person-centered Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT), which measures the extent to which long-term aged care staff rate their settings to be person-centred. A preliminary 39-item tool generated from research literature, expert consultations and research interviews with 37 aged care staff, 11 people with early onset dementia, and 19 family members was distributed to a sample of 220 Australian aged care staff and subjected to item analysis and reduction. Psychometric evaluation of the final 13-item tool was conducted using statistical estimates of validity and reliability. The results showed that the P-CAT was shown to be valid and homogeneous by factor, item and content analyses. Crohnbach's alpha was satisfactory for the total scale (0.84), and the three sub-scales had values of 0.81, 0.77, and 0.31 respectively. Test-retest reliability were evaluated (n = 26) and all analyses indicated satisfactory estimates. This study provides preliminary evidence in support of the psychometric properties of the P-CAT when used in an Australian sample of long-term aged care staff. The tool contributes to the literature by making it possible to study person-centred care in relation to health outcomes, organizational models, characteristics and levels of staffing, degrees of care needs among residents, and impact of interventions. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100310203 A |
| Classmark | EA: DC: QA: 3DA: 5H: 4C: 7YA |
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