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Evaluating and quantifying user and carer involvement in mental health care planning (EQUIP) : co-development of a new patient-reported outcome measure

International and national health policy seeks to increase service user and carer involvement in mental health care planning, but suitable user-centred tools to assess the success of these initiatives are not yet available. The current study describes the development of a new reliable and valid, interval-scaled service-user and carer reported outcome measure for quantifying user/carer involvement in mental health care planning. Psychometric development reduced a 70-item item bank to a short form questionnaire using a combination of Classical Test, Mokken and Rasch Analyses.

Thu, 07/20/2017 - 15:19

Family's difficulty scale in end-of-life home care: A new measure of the family's difficulties in caring for patients with cancer at the end of life at home from bereaved family's perspective

Background: The aim of this study was to develop a tool to measure the family's difficulties in caring for cancer patients at the end of life at home: Family's Difficulty Scale in end-of-life home care (FDS).

Methods: The draft of the FDS was derived from a pilot interview survey and literature reviews. The questionnaires were sent to 395 bereaved family caregivers whose family members were patients with terminal cancer receiving home service.

Thu, 07/20/2017 - 15:15