Psychometric Properties of a Spanish-Language Version of a Short-Form FAMCARE: Applications to Caregivers of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.
Jeanne A Teresi, Katja Ocepek-Welikson, Mildred Ramirez and 4 others
PMID 31423925WHAT IT FOUND
The Spanish short-form FAMCARE gives one caregiver satisfaction score for dementia care.
Many caregivers scored at the top, and the study did not check whether the same score would be repeated over time.
Key findings
01The 10 items fit together as one satisfaction score, and each item matched that score strongly, with loadings from 0.88 to 0.99.
02Caregiver satisfaction was inversely related to burden, depression and stress, but the correlations were small.
03About 43% of the total sample and 53% of Spanish interview respondents scored at the top of the scale.
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What it does not show
Test-retest reliability was not measured, so the study does not show whether the same caregiver would get a similar score at another time. Differential item functioning between English-speaking and Spanish-speaking Hispanics could not be examined because sample sizes were relatively small for those analyses. There was a ceiling effect, with many caregivers at the most satisfied score, especially Spanish interview respondents. The sample was limited to Hispanic community dwelling caregivers in New York, so results may not apply to other groups or settings.
Declared interests
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest. The publication types list NIH extramural and non-U.S. government research support.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use this scale to show that a dementia care service improved. The study did not test whether the same score would be repeated over time, and it could not compare English and Spanish item performance because sample sizes were relatively small. Many caregivers also scored at the top.