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The Relationship of Social Norms to Use of Services and Caregiver Burden in Japan
Author(s) -
Asahara Kiyomi,
Momose Yumiko,
Murashima Sachiyo,
Okubo Noriko,
Magilvy Joan K.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 1527-6546
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2001.00375.x
Subject(s) - confirmatory factor analysis , caregiver burden , psychology , exploratory factor analysis , family caregivers , scale (ratio) , construct validity , reliability (semiconductor) , clinical psychology , gerontology , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , medicine , dementia , statistics , physics , power (physics) , mathematics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics
Purpose: To develop an improved measure of ‘sekentei’ (a social‐psychological process that restricts behaviors that do not conform to social norms such as family caregiving) among family caregivers in Japan, and to describe the relationships among sekentei and caregiver's actual use of services, a reluctance to use services, and care burden. Design: Descriptive correlational study. Family caregivers (N=260) of impaired elders responded to a structured questionnaire. Methods: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to assess the construct validity of the sekentei scale for caregivers (SSC). With the SSC, the relationships among main variables were verified. Findings: The SSC showed satisfactory reliability and validity. Sekentei was significantly correlated with care burden, but not to actual use or reluctance to use services. Conclusions: Sekentei is an important factor related to caregiver burden in Japan. Further research might include the extent to which sekentei is a factor in care burden in other cultures.