Dementia as Fixed or Malleable: Development and Validation of the Dementia Mindset Scale.
Care professionals
Formal caregiving
Nursing homes
Person-centered care
Well-being
Journal
Innovation in aging
ISSN: 2399-5300
Titre abrégé: Innov Aging
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101703706
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
19
01
2020
entrez:
24
9
2020
pubmed:
25
9
2020
medline:
25
9
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Care professionals differ in how they experience and respond to dementia caregiving. To explain such differences, we developed a new measure: the Dementia Mindset Scale. This scale captures the extent to which care professionals view dementia as stable and fixed (akin to the biomedical perspective) or as flexible and malleable (akin to the person-centered approach). We conducted four studies to develop the scale. We tested items for comprehensibility, assessed the scale's factorial structure and psychometric properties, and investigated its predictive validity for care professionals' well-being. A new scale with a two-factor structure-distinguishing a malleable dementia mindset from a fixed dementia mindset-was developed. Results showed good convergent and divergent validity. Moreover, the dementia mindsets predicted aspects of job-related well-being in care professionals. The scale allows for the assessment of individual differences in how care professionals see dementia. This insight can be used to improve interventions aimed at enhancing care professionals' well-being and quality of care.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVE
Care professionals differ in how they experience and respond to dementia caregiving. To explain such differences, we developed a new measure: the Dementia Mindset Scale. This scale captures the extent to which care professionals view dementia as stable and fixed (akin to the biomedical perspective) or as flexible and malleable (akin to the person-centered approach).
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
METHODS
We conducted four studies to develop the scale. We tested items for comprehensibility, assessed the scale's factorial structure and psychometric properties, and investigated its predictive validity for care professionals' well-being.
RESULTS
RESULTS
A new scale with a two-factor structure-distinguishing a malleable dementia mindset from a fixed dementia mindset-was developed. Results showed good convergent and divergent validity. Moreover, the dementia mindsets predicted aspects of job-related well-being in care professionals.
DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS
CONCLUSIONS
The scale allows for the assessment of individual differences in how care professionals see dementia. This insight can be used to improve interventions aimed at enhancing care professionals' well-being and quality of care.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32968698
doi: 10.1093/geroni/igaa023
pii: igaa023
pmc: PMC7494239
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
igaa023Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.
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