Professional care team burden scale: cross‐cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Turkish version.

PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers; STATISTICAL correlation; FACTOR analysis; HEALTH facilities; INTERVIEWING; LONG-term health care; RESEARCH methodology; META-analysis; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIABILITY (Personality trait); RESEARCH evaluation; SCALE analysis (Psychology); T-test (Statistics); TRANSLATIONS; PILOT projects; BURDEN of care; MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques; CROSS-sectional method; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EVALUATION

Introduction: Care teams in nursing homes have to meet the expectations of the people they care for, their relatives and the institutions. This affects the quality of the care. An increased care burden may negatively affect the quality of work, lives and the health of formal caregivers. Objectives: This methodological cross‐sectional study was conducted to adapt the Professional Care Team Burden (PCTB) Scale, which was developed to assess the difficulties experienced by caregivers working in long‐term care, to Turkish and test its validity and reliability. Material and method: The study was conducted with 100 caregivers working at a nursing home and rehabilitation centre. The Caregiver Information Form and the Professional Care Team Burden Scale were used to collect data. The language and content validity, construct validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the scale were tested, respectively. Results: The factor analysis showed that the Professional Care Team Burden Scale could be used in two dimensions. When the test–retest was done, the reliability of the scale was found to be high (0.982). The construct validity of the scale showed that the three‐factor model did not acceptably fit the data, while the two‐dimensional model obtained by removing some of the variables from the model did fit the data (RMSEA = 0.106, GFI = 0.933, CFI = 0.916, IFI = 0.919, RFI = 0.778 and RMR = 0.078). The factor loadings for the construct validity of the scale demonstrated that the two‐factor model showed an acceptable fit. Conclusions: The study found that the two‐factor Turkish version of the Professional Care Team Burden Scale met the validity and reliability criteria. The scale, which has an important place in the assessment of the formal caregivers' burden, can be used with healthcare professionals providing care for older adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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