Development of the caregivers attitude scale on home care of schizophrenics (CASHS).

摘要: Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that elicits feelings of strangeness and discomfort, which may create stigma lead to the social exclusion mentally ill people relating with them. In past decade, there has been an increase in number research studies on attitudes toward disorders. Materials Methods: An instrument was developed assess attitude primary caregivers home care schizophrenics. This article describes development Likert scale, Caregivers Attitude Scale Home Care Schizophrenics CASHS, 31-item self-reported quantifies three aspects care, is, towards patient, treatment, interaction. The steps involved its are review literature, items, content validation, translation language validity, pretesting, reliability. Results: After establishing CASHS pretested five subjects. To establish reliability 21 were recruited through purposive sampling technique. order measure stability between scores obtained, test-retest computed using Karl Pearson correlation coefficient r value 0.78. internal consistency measured Cronbach's alpha item-total 0.789. item discrimination analysis also above 0.35. These statistical measurements indicate reliable. Conclusions: valid reliable tool can be utilized for assessing