Taiwanese Nursing Students Knowledge of Elderly

Wang, Cheng-Ching

doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2010.02.147

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“…The use of healthcare services by elders is increasing with their rising age (Wang et al ., 2009). The care of elders will have an increasingly important role in the remit of healthcare professionals, especially nurses (Ryan, Melby, & Mitchell, 2007), because they are the front‐line healthcare professionals spending their whole time with elders (Wang, 2010). One of the most challenging healthcare issues is to provide quality care for elders.…”

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Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the Kogan's Attitudes Toward Older People Scale

Rejeh

Heravi‐Karimooi

Montazeri

et al. 2012

Japan Journal Nursing Sci

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Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties "validity" and "reliability" of the Iranian version of Kogan's Attitudes Toward Older People Scale (KAOPS). Methods:The participants consisted of 350 nurses working in five teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. The scale was translated using the forward-backward translation technique. A two-phase data collection design was used in 2 weeks following the first completion. Exploratory factor analysis, content validity, construct validity, internal consistency, and stability-reliability was employed to check the scale's psychometric properties. Results: The scale total scores were between 42 and 188. All of the 34 items were found to have significant item-to-total correlations (P < 0.05). Two factors were extracted -"prejudice' and "appreciation" -which contributed to the scale variance of 32.83% and 25.93%, respectively. Cronbach's alpha was 0.83 for the total scale as 0.83 for "prejudice" and 0.86 for "appreciation". In addition, the scale stability was reported to be 0.90 and 0.83 for "prejudice" and "appreciation", respectively. The average content validity was 0.95, and construct validity was in an acceptable range. Conclusion:The Iranian version of the KAOPS was shown to be a valid and reliable instrument for measuring nurses' knowledge about elders. This scale can be used in future studies to gather high-quality data for improving elder care.

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