Development of the Readiness for Home-Based Palliative Care Scale (RHBPCS) for Primary Family Caregivers

Overview

Journal Healthcare (Basel)

Specialty Health Services

Date 2021 Jun 2

PMID 34069437

Citations 2

Authors

Meng-Ping Wu

Lee-Ing Tsao

Sheng-Jean Huang

Chieh-Yu Liu

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Abstract

In Chinese or Eastern society, most end-of-life (EOL) patients still choose to die at home. However, primary family caregivers usually do not prepare themselves to face the death of patients. Therefore, a measurement of the readiness for home-based palliative care for primary family caregivers is needed. In this study, the readiness for home-based palliative care scale (RHBPCS) for primary family caregivers was developed to assess the readiness of primary family caregivers. This study recruited 103 participants from five branches of one municipal hospital system. The reliability and validity of the RHBPCS was evaluated using expert validity examination, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and item analysis. The results showed that the RHBPCS had strong goodness-of-fit and good reliability and validity. In summary, the RHBPCS is suggested for assessing the readiness for home-based palliative care of primary family caregivers.

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