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KMID : 0606120050110010072
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Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
2005 Volume.11 No. 1 p.72 ~ p.82
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Development of a Tool to Measure the Need for Child Hospice Care in Families of Children with Cancer
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강경아/Kang KA
심송용/김신정/Sim SY/Kim SJ
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Abstract
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop a tool to assess the need for child hospice care in families of children with cancer.
METHOD: The research design was a methodological study. The tool was developed in 4 stages : first, preliminary items were developed based on a questionnaire about the needs for child hospice care that was given to 20 families of children with cancer; second, a panel of specialists reduced the number of preliminary items using 3 validity tests for the content; third, final items were selected from the results of a pre-test. Finally, from February to July 2004, reliability and validity were tested with a sample of 104 families who had a child with cancer.
RESULTS: The final tool on the need for child hospice care consisted of 22 items and Cronbach´s alpha coefficient for internal consistency was .93. Using factor analysis, 5 factors were extracted and these factors explained 69% of the total variance.
CONCLUSION: The instrument, for assessing the need for child hospice care in families of children with cancer, developed in this study was identified as a tool with a high degree of reliability and validity. In this sense, this tool can be effectively utilized for implementing and improving hospice care for children with cancer.
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