Validity testing of the Dutch translation of the appraisal of the self-care agency A.S.A.-scale.
The purpose of this study was translation and construct validity testing of the appraisal of the self-care agency ASA-scale. This scale measures operability of self-care agency. The original English version of the scale was translated into Dutch. Subsequently the Dutch version was retranslated into English and compared with the original for semantic and cross-cultural differences. Construct validity of the translated scale was tested on 140 elderly in the Netherlands. The scale was administered to 40 randomly selected patients of a nursing home, 30 residents of a personalized care facility, 30 residents of a service flat and 40 randomly selected elderly who lived independently in the adjacent community. As hypothesize, mean ASA scores of the four groups of elderly differed significantly. The less dependent on institutionalized nursing care the higher the operability of the self-care agency scores of the elderly.
School of Public Health, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006701:Home Nursing; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010548:Personal Health Services; D011897:Random Allocation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012648:Self Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating