title: Factor structure of the geriatric institutional assessment profile's professional issues scales.
abstract: The Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile (GIAP) is a self-administered survey of hospital nurses, designed to assess a hospital's readiness to implement geriatric programs. A sample of 2,211 direct care RNs in 24 hospitals was randomly split in half to analyze the Geriatric Professional Issues scales of the GIAP, using one sample for exploratory factor analysis and one for confirmatory factor analysis. An exploratory factor analysis of the six Geriatric Professional Issue scales (staff disagreement, staff/family/patient disagreement, use of geriatric services, perceived legal vulnerability, perceived upsetting behaviors, and burden of upsetting behaviors) demonstrated very good internal consistency both as a whole (Cronbach's alpha coefficient = 0.90) and as individual factors (0.94, 0.91, 0.92, 0.89, 0.85, and 0.81, respectively). The six factors were validated in a half randomly selected sample, with a root-mean-square error of approximation fit index of 0.07 and the normed and non-normed fit indices both 0.8, all indicating adequate fit of the six-factor model.
authors.affiliation: NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University College of Nursing, New York, New York 10003, USA. marie.boltz@nyu.edu
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boltz
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Capezuti
authors.forename: Hongsoo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fairchild
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Secic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States