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Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden

BACKGROUND: The world’s growing population of older adults is one population that needs to be focused more regarding subjective well-being. It is therefore important to evaluate self-report instruments that measures general well-being for this specific group - older adults. The aim of the present st...

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Autores principales: Hochwälder, Jacek, Gustafsson, Lena-Karin, Östlund, Gunnel, Zander, Viktoria, Elfström, Magnus L.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9706994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36443687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03625-z
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author Hochwälder, Jacek
Gustafsson, Lena-Karin
Östlund, Gunnel
Zander, Viktoria
Elfström, Magnus L.
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Gustafsson, Lena-Karin
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Zander, Viktoria
Elfström, Magnus L.
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description BACKGROUND: The world’s growing population of older adults is one population that needs to be focused more regarding subjective well-being. It is therefore important to evaluate self-report instruments that measures general well-being for this specific group - older adults. The aim of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Swedish translation of the GP-CORE (general population – Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation) in a group of older adults (> 65 years). METHODS: In this study, a psychometric evaluation of the GP-CORE is presented for 247 Swedish older adults (> 65 years), 184 women and 63 men who applied for home care assistance for the first time. RESULTS: The psychometric evaluation showed high acceptability; provided norm values in terms of means, standard deviations and quartiles; showed satisfactory reliability in terms of both internal consistency and stability; showed satisfactory validity in terms of convergent and discriminant validity; provided a very preliminary cut-off value and quite low sensibility and sensitivity and showed results which indicated that this scale is sensitive to changes. One gender difference was identified in that women without a cohabitant had a higher well-being than men without a cohabitant (as measured by GP-CORE). CONCLUSIONS: The GP-CORE showed satisfactory psychometric properties to be used to measure and monitor subjective well-being in older adults (> 65 years) in the general population of community dwelling. Future studies should establish a cut-off value in relation to another well-being measure relevant for mental health in older adults.
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spelling pubmed-97069942022-11-30 Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden Hochwälder, Jacek Gustafsson, Lena-Karin Östlund, Gunnel Zander, Viktoria Elfström, Magnus L. BMC Geriatr Research BACKGROUND: The world’s growing population of older adults is one population that needs to be focused more regarding subjective well-being. It is therefore important to evaluate self-report instruments that measures general well-being for this specific group - older adults. The aim of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Swedish translation of the GP-CORE (general population – Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation) in a group of older adults (> 65 years). METHODS: In this study, a psychometric evaluation of the GP-CORE is presented for 247 Swedish older adults (> 65 years), 184 women and 63 men who applied for home care assistance for the first time. RESULTS: The psychometric evaluation showed high acceptability; provided norm values in terms of means, standard deviations and quartiles; showed satisfactory reliability in terms of both internal consistency and stability; showed satisfactory validity in terms of convergent and discriminant validity; provided a very preliminary cut-off value and quite low sensibility and sensitivity and showed results which indicated that this scale is sensitive to changes. One gender difference was identified in that women without a cohabitant had a higher well-being than men without a cohabitant (as measured by GP-CORE). CONCLUSIONS: The GP-CORE showed satisfactory psychometric properties to be used to measure and monitor subjective well-being in older adults (> 65 years) in the general population of community dwelling. Future studies should establish a cut-off value in relation to another well-being measure relevant for mental health in older adults. BioMed Central 2022-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9706994/ /pubmed/36443687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03625-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Hochwälder, Jacek
Gustafsson, Lena-Karin
Östlund, Gunnel
Zander, Viktoria
Elfström, Magnus L.
Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden
title Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden
title_full Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden
title_fullStr Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden
title_full_unstemmed Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden
title_short Psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure GP-CORE in a group of older adults in Sweden
title_sort psychometric evaluation of the subjective well-being measure gp-core in a group of older adults in sweden
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9706994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36443687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03625-z
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