Development and psychometric evaluation of an instrument to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Family Caregivers at Preventing Pressure Injuries (KAP-PI) in Indonesian community-dwelling older adults

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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of pressure injuries among community-dwelling older adults in countries worldwide is still a serious problem. In Indonesia, older adults mostly rely on family members for (medical) care. Therefore, involving family members in the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries (PIs) could potentially decrease its prevalence rates. However, family members are usually not trained for such tasks. Hence, it is essential to first get more insight into the current state of affairs on family members' knowledge, attitude and actual practice of preventing PIs. Due to the lack of an existing instrument to measure knowledge, attitude and practice of family caregivers in preventing PIs, this study focuses on the development and evaluation of psychometric properties of such an instrument.

METHODS: Three phases of instrument development and evaluation were used, including item generation, instrument construction and psychometric testing of the instrument. A total of 372 family caregivers of community-dwelling older adults who randomly selected participated in this study. Principal factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha were performed to evaluate factor structure and internal consistency of the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Family Caregivers at Preventing Pressure Injuries (KAP-PI) instrument.

RESULTS: The final version of the KAP-PI-instrument consists of a 12-item knowledge domain, a 9-item attitude domain, and a 12-item practice domain with Cronbach's Alpha values of 0.83, 0.93 and 0.89, respectively. The instrument appeared to be both reliable and valid.

CONCLUSION: The KAP-PI instrument can be used in family nursing or community nursing practice, education, and research to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of pressure injury prevention of family caregivers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

BMC nursing - 21(2022), 1 vom: 11. Aug., Seite 222

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sari, Sheizi Prista [VerfasserIn]
Everink, Irma H J [VerfasserIn]
Lohrmann, Christa [VerfasserIn]
Amir, Yufitriana [VerfasserIn]
Sari, Eka Afrima [VerfasserIn]
Halfens, Ruud J G [VerfasserIn]
Beeckman, Dimitri [VerfasserIn]
Schols, Jos M G A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Attitude
Community nurses
Family caregivers
Journal Article
Knowledge
Practice
Pressure injury
Pressure ulcer
Prevention
Psychometric evaluation

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Date Revised 14.08.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12912-022-00957-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344683249