The structural and convergent validity of three commonly used measures of self-management in persons with neurological conditions

PURPOSE: Self-management ability is commonly assessed in chronic disease research and clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to assess the structural and convergent validity of three commonly used self-management outcome measures in a sample of persons with neurological conditions.

METHODS: We used data from a Canadian survey of persons with neurological conditions, which included three commonly used self-management measures: the Partners in Health Scale (PIH), the Patient Activation Measure (PAM), and the Self-Efficacy for Managing a Chronic Disease Scale (SEMCD). Confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess the structural and convergent validity of the three measures.

RESULTS: When treated as single-factor constructs, none of the measurement models provided a good fit to the data. A four-domain version of the PIH was the best fitting model. Confirmatory factor analysis suggests that the three tools measure different, but correlated constructs.

CONCLUSIONS: While the PAM, PIH and SEMCD scales are all used as measures of patient self-management, our study indicates that they measure different, but correlated latent variables. None, when treated as single, uni-dimensional construct, provides an acceptable fit to our data. This is probably because self-management is multi-dimensional, as is consistently shown by qualitative evidence. While these measures may provide reliable summative measures, multi-dimensional scales are needed for clinical use and more detailed research on self-management.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation - 28(2019), 2 vom: 02. Feb., Seite 545-556

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kephart, George [VerfasserIn]
Packer, Tanya L [VerfasserIn]
Audulv, Åsa [VerfasserIn]
Warner, Grace [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Confirmatory factor analysis
Construct validity
Convergent validity
Journal Article
Patient activation
Self-care
Self-efficacy
Self-management
Structural validity

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Date Completed 28.03.2019

Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11136-018-2036-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM290235464