title: Health status assessment tool for the family member caregiver of patients with bipolar disorder: development and psychometric testing.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The caregivers' health assessment requires the application of a valid instrument that provided based on their experiences about the health concept. The purpose of this study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of the health assessment tool for family member caregivers' of patients with bipolar disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study utilized mixed research. The specific validation processes used were: content and face validity, construct validity using factor analysis, reliability and internal consistency using test-retest reliability and Cronbach's alpha correlation coefficient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The exploratory factor analysis revealed ten factors: safe life with peace, maintaining physical health, painful emotions, psychological tolerance, maintaining physical-psychological potency, families and relatives support, health care system support, moral-financial support, maintaining social relationships, and worry over the label. The internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) was 95. Test-retest reliability of the questionnaire with interval time of two weeks was 0.93 (p < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family caregivers' health assessment questionnaire with 75 items helped to determine family caregivers' health in different settings such as clinical settings, homes and research environments by health care providers.
authors: Research Center for Behavioral Disorders & Substance Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran. shamsaei@umsha.ac.ir
authors: Farshid
authors: F
authors: Shamsaei
authors: Sima Mohamad Khan
authors: SM
authors: Kermanshahi
authors: Zohreh
authors: Z
authors: Vanaki
authors: Ebrahim
authors: E
authors: Hajizadeh
authors: Martin Grosse
authors: MG
authors: Holtforth
authors: Fatemeh
authors: F
authors: Cheragi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards; D055815:Young Adult