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Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients
BACKGROUND: Various factors threaten the health and recovery of hospitalized elderly, including stressors in medical service centers. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop and preliminary validate a measurement tool to assess hospitalization-related stressors (HRS) among the elderly...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27904637 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.193416 |
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author | Musavi, Zahra Alavi, Mousa Alimohammadi, Nasrollah Hosseini, Habibollah |
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description | BACKGROUND: Various factors threaten the health and recovery of hospitalized elderly, including stressors in medical service centers. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop and preliminary validate a measurement tool to assess hospitalization-related stressors (HRS) among the elderly. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This methodological research was conducted in 2015. The study was performed in two main phases. In the first phase, which was to develop the questionnaire, the data were collected through literature review, interview with few elderly patients, and calculating content validity index with the participation of 16 experts. The second phase included preliminary validation of the questionnaire in which a convenient sample of 200 hospitalized elderly patients recruited from 4 educational medical centers of the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences were studied. Principal component analysis method was used to identify the factorial structure of the questionnaire. In order to evaluate validity, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated. RESULTS: After evaluating the results and relocating and merging some of the items, a version of 26 items in 7 categories was prepared with acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient from 0.67 to 0.78 for the components and 0.83 for the tool). CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we were able to identify a set of important components and indicators of HRS in elderly; so it can be used as a useful instrument. Future studies are recommended in order to develop and validate this tool in other communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-51147982016-11-30 Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients Musavi, Zahra Alavi, Mousa Alimohammadi, Nasrollah Hosseini, Habibollah Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Various factors threaten the health and recovery of hospitalized elderly, including stressors in medical service centers. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop and preliminary validate a measurement tool to assess hospitalization-related stressors (HRS) among the elderly. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This methodological research was conducted in 2015. The study was performed in two main phases. In the first phase, which was to develop the questionnaire, the data were collected through literature review, interview with few elderly patients, and calculating content validity index with the participation of 16 experts. The second phase included preliminary validation of the questionnaire in which a convenient sample of 200 hospitalized elderly patients recruited from 4 educational medical centers of the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences were studied. Principal component analysis method was used to identify the factorial structure of the questionnaire. In order to evaluate validity, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated. RESULTS: After evaluating the results and relocating and merging some of the items, a version of 26 items in 7 categories was prepared with acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient from 0.67 to 0.78 for the components and 0.83 for the tool). CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we were able to identify a set of important components and indicators of HRS in elderly; so it can be used as a useful instrument. Future studies are recommended in order to develop and validate this tool in other communities. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5114798/ /pubmed/27904637 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.193416 Text en Copyright: © Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Musavi, Zahra Alavi, Mousa Alimohammadi, Nasrollah Hosseini, Habibollah Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients |
title | Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients |
title_full | Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients |
title_fullStr | Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients |
title_short | Development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients |
title_sort | development and initial psychometric evaluation of the hospitalization-related stressors questionnaire for elderly patients |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27904637 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.193416 |
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