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Measurement structure of the caregiver burden scale: Findings from a national community survey in T aiwan
Author(s) -
Lin Linen Nymphas,
Wu ShwuChong
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
geriatrics and gerontology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1447-0594
pISSN - 1444-1586
DOI - 10.1111/ggi.12076
Subject(s) - caregiver burden , confirmatory factor analysis , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , medicine , exploratory factor analysis , family caregivers , gerontology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , statistics , dementia , chemistry , physics , mathematics , disease , pathology , chromatography , quantum mechanics
Aim There is no appropriate understanding of community family caregiver burden. The object of the present study was to evaluate the measurement structure of a caregiver burden scale from a nationally representative Taiwanese community sample. Methods Data from nationally representative subjects completing face‐to‐face interviews on caregiver burden were analyzed. A total of 9020 primary adult family caregivers were enrolled. All of the valid respondents were equally divided into three subsamples. The first sample was used to explore the factor structure of burden scale. The second sample was used to validate the factor structure. The third sample was used to verify the adequacy and stability of the factor structures developed in the former steps. Results A total of 8826 valid data were included for analysis. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis identified the four‐factor, 15‐item C aregiver B urden S cale ( CBS ‐15) in the present study. The extracted four factors were predominantly accounted for by the items measuring “burden of time,” “relational burden,” “financial burden” and “emotional burden”. All the goodness‐of‐fit indices reported for this model were acceptable. Conclusion The present study supports the usefulness of the CBS ‐15 as a tool to understand the measurement structure of burden in a nationally representative Taiwanese community family caregivers sample. The CBS ‐15 can be used to identify community caregiver needs. G eriatr G erontol I nt 2014; 14: 176–184.