title: [Developement of a standardised questionnaire. Specific interventions for people with dementia in long-term care].
abstract: Caring for residents in long-term care who suffer from dementia is a special challenge. In the context of a research project a questionnaire for a mail survey in nursing homes was developed in order to describe specific nursing interventions for dementia in daily practice. The Questionnaire development was done according to acknowledged standards for questionnaire development, using means of operationalisation and external expert rating. Then the questionnaire was tested in a two-phase-pretest. Seven nursing homes were involved in a cognitive pretest. The standard-pretest was sent to 200 nursing homes (response rate 17.5 percent). Evaluation of the questionnaire drafts by means of two-phase-pretesting proved to be an effective measure for continuous improvement. The resulting questionnaire should be used to collect data about specific interventions for people suffering from dementia in residential long-term care.
authors.affiliation: Medizinischen Fakultät der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. th.hofmann@freenet.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Just
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sadowski
authors.forename: Almuth
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beyrodt
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Behrens
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000451:nursing* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D005858:Germany; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*