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The Alzheimer's Disease Home Hospice Knowledge Scale: development, validity and reliability
Pnina Sela-Katz, Perla Werner. International journal of palliative nursing, 2018-03-02
Topic: Health services, long-term care and technology
The AD-HHK-S included 28 true/false items assessing 3 areas of knowledge: knowledge about hospice, knowledge about home hospice, and knowledge about home hospice for AD. Good internal reliability was found, with Cronbach alpha ranging from 0.72 to 0.85. Good face, construct and predictive validity were found. The AD-HHK-S proved to be a valid and reliable tool to assess knowledge about hospice care in the area of AD. It might provide an effective tool for palliative care nurses to communicate with family caregivers of persons with AD at the end of life.
Key findings
- The AD-HHK-S included 28 true/false items assessing 3 areas of knowledge: knowledge about hospice, knowledge about home hospice, and knowledge about home hospice for AD.
- Good internal reliability was found, with Cronbach alpha ranging from 0.72 to 0.85.
- Good face, construct and predictive validity were found.
- The AD-HHK-S proved to be a valid and reliable tool to assess knowledge about hospice care in the area of AD.
- It might provide an effective tool for palliative care nurses to communicate with family caregivers of persons with AD at the end of life.
Study details
- Participants28
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 46/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, effect reported and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record, multi-centre collaboration and free to read, so those were left out: it earned 26 of the 56 points we could judge it on, which is 46 out of 100.
| Component | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (International journal of palliative nursing) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2018 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 1 / 4 | 28 participants |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 3 / 3 | Studied in people (participant count stated) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | — / 7 | No citation count (not found in OpenAlex) — left out of this score |
| Citations per year | — / 5 | No citation count or no year — left out of this score |
| Impact for its field and year | — / 6 | No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score |
| Cited by studies here | — / 6 | Not yet checked against this library's citation graph — left out of this score |
| Still being cited | — / 4 | No yearly citation counts — left out of this score |
| Senior author's track record | — / 4 | Senior author's record not available — left out of this score |
| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Multi-centre collaboration | — / 3 | Institutions not listed — left out of this score |
| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 29608380) |
| Free to read | — / 2 | Access not recorded — left out of this score |
| Points | 26 / 56 | Scored on 10 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 26 of the 56 points we could judge it on is 46 out of 100. |
| Total | 46 / 100 | — |
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APA 7th
Sela-Katz, P., & Werner, P. (2018). The Alzheimer's Disease Home Hospice Knowledge Scale: development, validity and reliability. International journal of palliative nursing. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2018.24.3.108
Vancouver
Sela-Katz P, Werner P. The Alzheimer's Disease Home Hospice Knowledge Scale: development, validity and reliability. International journal of palliative nursing. 2018. doi:10.12968/ijpn.2018.24.3.108. PMID: 29608380.
BibTeX
@article{selakatz2018-29608380,
author = {Sela-Katz, Pnina and Werner, Perla},
title = {{The Alzheimer's Disease Home Hospice Knowledge Scale: development, validity and reliability}},
journal = {International journal of palliative nursing},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.12968/ijpn.2018.24.3.108},
pmid = {29608380},
url = {https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2018.24.3.108}
}