Validity and reliability of the Family Empowerment Scale for caregivers of adults with mental health issues

• Kageyama, Masako

• Nakamura,Yukako

• Kobayashi,Sayaka

• Yokoyama, Keiko

Abstract

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kageyama, Kageyama, M., Nakamura, Y., Kobayashi, S. and Yokoyama, K. (2016), Validity and reliability of the Family Empowerment Scale for caregivers of adults with mental health issues. J. Psychiatr. Ment. Health Nurs., 23: 521-531. doi:10.1111/jpm.12333, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12333. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Introduction: The Family Empowerment Scale (FES) was originally developed for parents of children with emotional disorders. In Japan, family empowerment is gaining increasing attention and may be one goal of nursing interventions. Aim: To develop a Japanese version of the FES for family caregivers of adults with mental health issues and to study the validity and reliability of this scale among parents. Method: We translated the FES into Japanese and administered this self‐report questionnaire to 275 parents. Results: The multitrait scaling analysis revealed acceptable convergent validity and insufficient discriminant validity among all subscales. In particular, all items of the Service system subscale had insufficient discriminant and/or convergent validity. Each subscale significantly correlated with the indicator of empowerment. The intraclass correlation coefficients of each subscale were .855–.917. Cronbach's alpha of each factor ranged from .867 to .895. Discussion: The Service system subscale may not linearly reflect family empowerment, and instead may depend on unclear roles of family caregivers of adults, disorder severity or insufficient services. Implications for practice: Further studies need to modify the scale. Clarification of ideal family empowerment status in the service system through discussion with mental health nurses and family caregivers may be important.

Journal

• Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

  Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing 23 (8), 521-531, 2016-08-08

  Wiley

Keywords

• empowerment
• family
• Japanese
• mental disorder
• mental illness
• scale
• assessment

Details

• CRID: 1050581168902005120
• NII Article ID: 120006844398
• NII Book ID: AA11042868
• HANDLE: 11094/75870
• ISSN: 13510126
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
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