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| Validation of the Indicators of Abuse (IOA) screen | | Author(s) | Myrna Reis, Daphne Nahmiash |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 4, August 1998 |
| Pages | pp 471-480 |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Family care ; Screening ; Canada. |
| Annotation | It is important to enable social services practitioners to identify cases in which older people are abused by their caregivers. The Indicators of Abuse (IOA) is a screening measure, based on abuse indicators, for use by practitioners, developed in Canada. The aim of this study was to test and validate the IOA. It involved 341 older people who were screened as part of an overall psychosocial assessment. The validity of the 29-item set of indicators of the IOA was supported by the study, which showed that the IOA discriminated abuse cases (84.4% of the time) from non-abuse cases (99.2% of the time). An abuse indicator model evolving from the IOA suggested three main types of abuse: caregiver personal problems/issues; caregiver interpersonal problems/issues; care recipient social support; and past abuse. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981001407 A |
| Classmark | QNT: P6:SJ: 3V: 7S |
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