英文摘要 |
Objectives: To develop a caregiver version of the original Personal and Social Performance (PSP) Scale, a scale which is widely used by psychiatric clinical professionals to provide caregivers with a method for assessing personal and social functioning changes in patients with schizophrenia. Methods: The pre-test questionnaire, which was completed after modifying the initial draft in accordance with an expert validity review, is divided into the fi rst part containing the personal and social functioning scale, and the second part having basic information. The pre-test subjects consisted of 200 primary caregivers who were caring for clinic outpatients with schizophrenia. All of the obtained pre-test information was subjected to item analysis, validity testing, and reliability testing. Results: The factor analysis results for each factor revealed that the variances were between 53.46% and 73.42%, and that Cronbach’s α of the reliability test was 0.91. The test-retest reliability and inter-rater reliability of the newly developed scale were 0.89 and 0.91, respectively, showing that the validity and reliability of the scale were satisfactory. Conclusions: The caregiver version of the PSP in Chinese developed in this study contains 20 questions distributed among four domains, i.e., socially useful activities, personal and social relationships, self-care, and disturbing and aggressive behavior. |