Development and Initial Validation of the Transportation Support Scale.
Importance: Driving cessation affects older drivers and, possibly, also care partners (most of whom tend to be women). Although tools exist to assess the effects on family and friends of providing informal care to someone who needs assistance, no tool is available to clinicians that specifically foc...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 1 - 10 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=171896720&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 171896720 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02729490 44I jtl: American Journal of Occupational Therapy issn: 02729490 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul/Aug2023 vid: 77 iid: 4 pid: 6680 pub: American Occupational Therapy Association place: North Bethesda, Maryland artinfo: ui: 171896720 171896720 171896720 10.5014/ajot.2023.050059 171896720 ppf: 1 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Development and Initial Validation of the Transportation Support Scale. aug: au: Fossum, Shauna Mazmanian, Dwight Møller, Helle Bédard, Michel affil: Shauna Fossum, MHSc, is Public Education Coordinator, Alzheimer Society of Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada. At the time of this research, Fossum was Graduate Student, Department of Health Sciences, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. sug: subj: Scales Transportation Accountability Automobile Driving Psychosocial Factors Instrument Construction Instrument Validation Human Male Female Aged, 80 and Over Aged Funding Source Convenience Sample Construct Validity Validation Studies Internal Consistency Coefficient alpha Psychometrics Descriptive Statistics Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient Data Analysis Software Aged, 80 & over Aged: 65+ years Male Female ab: Importance: Driving cessation affects older drivers and, possibly, also care partners (most of whom tend to be women). Although tools exist to assess the effects on family and friends of providing informal care to someone who needs assistance, no tool is available to clinicians that specifically focuses on the effects of driving cessation. Objective: To develop the Transportation Support Scale (TSS) to measure care partners' responses—both negative and positive—to driving cessation and assuming transportation responsibilities. Design: We developed a list of 98 items to capture the impact on care partners of providing transportation to older adults who have stopped driving. In Phase 1, we pretested the items qualitatively with a small sample of care partners. In Phase 2, we reduced the number of items and examined several psychometric properties of the TSS with a larger sample. Setting: Community. Participants: Two convenience samples of care partners who provide transportation (Phase 1, n = 11; Phase 2, n = 66). Results: The initial pool of items was reduced from 98 to 22. The final TSS has an internal consistency of.88 (Cronbach's α). Thirty-five percent of care partners' scores fell above the middle possible score; these care partners were likely experiencing a high negative impact related to providing transportation after driving cessation. Conclusions and Relevance: The TSS demonstrated adequate preliminary psychometric properties. We need additional research to further evaluate the psychometric properties of the TSS (e.g., test–retest reliability). A fully validated TSS may be useful to clinicians and researchers. What This Article Adds: The TSS has the potential to help clarify the perspective of care partners as well as inform the development and evaluation of services for care partners who are providing transportation to former drivers. The Transportation Support Scale (TSS) has the potential to help measure and clarify care partners' responses—both negative and positive—to driving cessation as well as inform the development and evaluation of services for care partners who are providing transportation to former drivers. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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