Abstract
This study aims to examine cross-cultural validation of the Japanese version of Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers, originally developed in the UK to measure quality of life among caregivers who took care of others, including family members, partners and friends, requiring rehabilitation and/or welfare services, without wages. It has seven question items with the four-response style. Data were collected from 600 working adults who took care of community-living family members through an internet survey. Among them, there were 374 men and 226 women, the mean age was 51 years old (ranged between 24 and 69 years old). We investigated the factorial structure and the scale system of the Japanese version, using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and an Item Response Theory (IRT) approach. The SEM provided the following values: 0.901-0.652 for the factor loadings, 0.847-0.597 for path coefficient, 0.982 for the Comparative Fit Index, and 0.063 (95% Confidence Interval: 0.040, 0.087) for the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation. Those values were within the acceptable range. The IRT analysis identified that values in item discrimination and item difficulty were within the acceptable range. The analysis revealed low validity in one question item. This study confirmed the factorial structure of the Japanese version.
Presenters
Hiromi NakamuraMai Yamaguchi
Ikushi Yamaguchi
Akemi Matsuzawa
Machiko Ohara
Keiko Hirose
Kamilla Razik
Stacey Rand
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2018 Special Focus: Aging, Health, Well-Being, and Care in a Time of Extreme Demographic Change
KEYWORDS
Cares, social care services, quality of life
Digital Media
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