The Development of Community Empowerment Process Scale(CEPS)--A Study of Elder Community Participation in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Hsueh, Man-Na, 薛曼娜
• Other Authors: Yeh, Ming-Lee,Ph.D.,R.N.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59304392037295872491

碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 護理研究所 === 92 === The purpose of this study was to develop a Community Empowerment Process Scale (CEPS) and to explore the motivation and effectiveness of elders’ community Participation in Taiwan I-Lan Area. The structure and items of CEPS were derived from a qualitative analysis of 12 active members’ interviews, those who deeply involved in a “Community Health City Program” in Shih-Lin district of Taipei. After being verified the validity and reliability, the CEPS was used to explore the relationships among epidemiological data, community participation and empowerment effectiveness of the elderly, by testing 313 elders living in three different communities of I-Lan County. The results reveal: 1)The total Cronbach’s alpha of CEPS is 0.897. In which, the Cronbach’s alpha of 5 subscales are: “Internal Characteristics”─0.88; “External Inducers”─0.87; “Cognition Empowerment”─0.85; “Emotion Empowerment”─0.87; and “Behavior Empowerment”─0.90. 2)By factor analysis, the “Internal Characteristics” and “External Inducers” can explain 59% factors of empowerment motives; the “Cognition Empowerment”, “Emotion Empowerment”, and “Behavior Empowerment” can totally explain 82.16% factors of empowerment effectiveness. 3)By Pearson’s product correlation, two empowerment motives factors and three empowerment effectiveness factors have highly inter-relationships. 4)By regression analysis, “Internal Characteristics” and “External Inducers” are two vital predictors of empowerment effectiveness. Their prediction power is up to 79%. 5)The action of participating community activities of most elders were initiated by their neighbors (42.7%) and most of them were active members in community activities (58.14%). 6)Elders who participated in activities more often, being active members and being board members of activities had higher level of empowerment effectiveness. This research develops a “Community Empowerment Process Scale”, which possesses good validity and reliability. More application issues in nursing practice, education, and future are discussed. Keywords: elder, community participation, empowerment, scale