The Kids Insight into Dementia Survey (KIDS): development and preliminary psychometric properties.
Aging Ment Health
; 22(8): 947-953, 2018 08.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
Children may have a foundational role in efforts to raise community awareness about dementia. There is some qualitative work with children with a relative with dementia, but little work into the insights of children as general citizens without affected family. One issue is an absence of measurement tools; thus the study aimed to design and pilot a psychometrically sound self-report measure of dementia attitudes for children.METHOD:
Using a multi-staged scale development process, stakeholder and expert input informed a 52-item Kids Insight into Dementia Survey (KIDS). After a pretest of KIDS with 21 Australian schoolchildren aged 10-12 years, exploratory factor analysis and reliability and validity testing were run on a revised KIDS with data from 203 similar-aged schoolchildren.RESULTS:
The KIDS was reduced from 52 to 14 items, and a three-factor solution identified 'Personhood,' 'Stigma,' and 'Dementia Understanding.' A strong positive correlation with an adult measure of dementia attitudes (r = .76) and a moderate positive correlation with a child measure of attitudes towards older adults (r = .47) indicated good concurrent validity. Internal consistency of .83 indicated good reliability.CONCLUSION:
Results support the use of KIDS as a tool to measure children's insight into dementia, and to evaluate dementia education initiatives targeting the youth.Palabras clave
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Colección:
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Psicometría
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Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud
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Demencia
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Límite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Aging Ment Health
Asunto de la revista:
GERIATRIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Año:
2018
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Australia