Assessing Recreational Sports Participation of Nursing Home Residents: Scale Development and Investigation of Validity and Reliability

• Main Authors: Li-chi Tsai, 蔡麗姬
• Other Authors: Ｄuu-cheng Fuh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ep2z97

碩士 === 南華大學 === 非營利事業管理學系 === 101 === 　　The studies in the past that related to recreational sports participation were almost all about healthy people in the community, and the evaluation of the recreational sports participation of nursing home residents lacked an appropriate assessment tool. The main purposes of this study are to develop an assessment tool for recreational sports participation of the nursing homes residents and to investigate the tool’s validity and reliability. A total of 7 nursing homes participated to construct validity research and a total of 333 valid questionnaire responses were collected for further analysis. A version of further testing of “ A measure for assessing recreational sports participation of nursing home residents, MARSP” was completed through forward and backward translation, experts’ examinations and cognitive interviews based on “Hopkins rehabilitation engagement rating scale, HRERS”. An exploratory factor analysis was then conducted. A total of 3 nursing homes participated in inter-rater reliability research and a total of 113 valid questionnaire responses were collected. Two clinicians in individual nursing homes evaluated the residents’ recreational sport participation using the MARSP simultaneously. The inter-rater reliability between the two groups was calculated, and then the minimal detectable change (MDC) was estimated. The results showed that the item 2 was excluded from the 5-item scale owing to its failure in the examination of item analysis. The finally revised MARSP contained 4 items with a 6-rank frequency scale, the maximum of total score was 20 points, and the construction of MARSP was one-dimension with good validity and reliability. The results of this study provide the clinicians in nursing homes with an assessment tool with reliability and validity. Grasping the residents’ recreational sports participation is critical for designing recreational sports and for establishing strategies to encourage residents’ participation in recreational sports. The results also can be the foundation for related studies of recreational sports in nursing homes.