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Content Domain for Caregiver Planning Identified by Adult Offspring Caregivers
Author(s) -
England Margaret
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1996.tb01172.x
Subject(s) - psychology , a priori and a posteriori , reliability (semiconductor) , offspring , domain (mathematical analysis) , developmental psychology , computer science , biology , mathematics , epistemology , pregnancy , mathematical analysis , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , genetics
The purpose of the study was to generate a description of caregiver planning and explain how the concept advanced knowledge of lay caregiver decision‐making. Nearly 2,000 decisions of 168 adult offspring caregivers were classified into one of 12 categories using an a priori taxonomic structure for caregiver planning. Coefficient kappas for intra‐ and inter‐rater reliability of the classifications ranged from .97 to .81. The computer program, Ethnograph, and existence theory then were used to organize the classifications in a more detailed manner given the a priori taxonomic structure. Findings from the study showed that the content of the subjects’decisions produced a relatively detailed, complete, and reliable description of caregiver planning. This information can help nurses and lay caregivers to further develop an ongoing pattern of decision‐making about caregiving.
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