Caregiver Contribution to Self-care in Ostomy Patient Index: Turkish Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

Aim: This study was conducted to evaluate the Turkish validity and reliability of the Caregiver Contribution to Self-care in Ostomy Patient Index, to evaluate the relatives of patients with stoma who contributed to their self-care in Turkish society, and to contribute to the literature of the measurement tool. Materials and Methods: This methodological type of research was carried out between September 2020 and January 2021 in a state and a university hospital in Tekirdağ. The research sample consisted of 223 individuals who contributed to the self-care of individuals with colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy, who applied for outpatient control. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, language and content validity, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), item analysis, internal consistency and test-retest methods were used. Results: The Content Validity Index was 0.99 and Cronbach’s alpha 0.890. According to the CFA, fit indices were within acceptable limits and all items were statistically significant in the 3 sub-dimensions of the scale. As in the original version of the scale, item 18, which was not statistically significant, was not included in the analysis and was accepted as an addition. The correlation between test-retest and scale items was 0.983 for the whole scale and between 0.973 and 0.987 for the sub-dimensions. Conclusion: At the end of the study, it was determined that the scale was suitable for Turkish society and was valid and reliable in Turkish.

Keywords

• caregivers
• ostomy
• stoma
• self-care
• reliability
• validity