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| A psychometric evaluation of a negative mood scale in the MDS-HC using a large sample of community-dwelling Hong Kong Chinese older adults | | Author(s) | Doris Y P Leung, Angela Y M Leung, Iris Chi |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 3, May 2012 |
| Pages | pp 317-322 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Depression ; Instruments ; Measurement ; Chinese people ; Hong Kong ; Living in the community ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Negative mood is an important construct when assessing the health of older people. The profile of mood states questionnaire is commonly used to measure mood, however it might not be suitable for use outside the North American context. The present study aimed to examine a negative mood scale formed by nine items in the Mood Section of the Minimum Data Set-Home Care of the Resident Assessment Instrument. Study participants were 3,523 Hong Kong Chinese people aged 60 or over who had first applied for long-term care services and completed the screening tool in 2006. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to test the factor structure and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis to test the gender invariance of the Negative Mood Scale in the Minimum Data Set-Home Care. Its reliability using Cronbach's alpha was examined. Results showed that both a three-factor model at the first level and a one-factor model at the second level provided excellent fits to the overall data, and held equally well for both men and women as well as two randomly split samples. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses revealed both genders demonstrating an equivalent pattern of factor loadings. Cronbach's alpha value was acceptable for the overall data. The study concludes that the Negative Mood Scale is a reliable and valid scale and both genders responded to it using the same framework and metric, suggesting it could be used to measure negative mood in Chinese community-dwelling older adults. Further testing of the instrument is needed. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120511003 A |
| Classmark | ENR: YW4: 3R: TKL: 7DR: K4: 4C |
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