Designing and Psychometric Properties of Coping Strategies Scale for Family Caregivers of Hemodialysis Patients
Abstract
The present study tries to design and evaluate the psychometric properties of” of coping strategies scale for family caregivers of hemodialysis patients. This study consisted of two phases; phase one was a qualitative study to explore hemodialysis patients family caregivers’ experiences of coping strategies (N=14). Then, the items were extracted from the interviews and the literature. Phase two was psychometrics assessment including face validity, content validity, construct validity (N=245) and reliability. In phase one 89 items were extracted and after face and content validity 56 items remained. Construct validity of the scale, based on exploratory factor analysis, removed another 22 items. The remaining 34 items contained nine subscales (active coping, positive thinking, appeal to spirituality, help seeking, altruism, acting out, self-blaming, seeking isolation, and Intentional forgetting). The reliability of the scale with Cronbach’s alpha was 0.91 and its stability was obtained through test-retest (ICC= 0.9).Coping strategies scale for family caregivers of hemodialysis patients has an acceptable validity and reliability.
The tool can be used to assess effective and ineffective coping strategies in family caregivers of hemodialysis patients that may be useful for facilitating management and education of efficient coping strategies to family caregivers of hemodialysis patients.
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