Development and reliability and validity tests of Oral Health Caring Ability Assessment Scale for Caregivers of Infants and Young Children
Objective To develop an Oral Health Caring Ability Assessment Scale for Infants and Young Children Caregivers and test its reliability and validity,so as to provide a scientific tool for assessing the oral health caring ability of them.Methods Based on the IMB Skills Model,the initial version of the scale was formed through literature review,expert consultation,and pre-investigation.From May to July 2023,a total of 218 caregivers of infants and young children who were treated in the child health department of a tertiary A specialized hospital in Qingdao were selected by convenience sampling for project analysis and reliability and validity test.From August to September 2023,we selected 330 caregivers of infants and young children who were treated in the child health department of 3 tertiary A general hospitals in Shandong and Hunan Provinces by convenience sampling to further verify the stability of the scale structure.Results The Oral Health Caring Ability Assessment Scale for Caregivers of Infants and Young Children included 4 dimensions,including feeding knowledge,oral cleaning and examination knowledge,oral health caring attitude and oral health caring behavior skills,with a total of 27 items.According to exploratory factor analysis,4 common factors were extracted and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 62.022％.The Cronbach's α coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.938;the split-half reliability was 0.774;the test-retest reliability was 0.990.The content validity index at the scale level was 0.957,and the content validity index at the item level was 0.833-1.000.Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fitted well and the factor structure of the scale was stable.Conclusion The Oral Health Caring Ability Assessment Scale for Caregivers of Infants and Young Children has good reliability and validity,which can be used to assess the level of oral health caring ability for caregivers of infants and young children accurately.
Infants and Young ChildrenCaregiverOral HealthCaring AbilityScale DevelopmentReliabilityValidityPediatric Nursing
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