Psychometric testing of a person-centred care scale the Eden Warmth Survey in a long-term care home in New Zealand

Abstract

Background: Traditional nursing homes have been viewed as dominated by the medical model. Since the 1990s, the Eden Alternative^TM has become a significant model in systemic transformations in nursing homes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric performance of the 20 items of the Eden Warmth Survey – Residents (EWS-R) in an aged-care home. Design: A resident's satisfaction survey was used to collect a sample of 85 long-term care home residents. Methods: Psychometric evaluation included item analyses, reliability including internal consistency and stability, criterion-related validity and construct validity. Results: The reduced 13 items demonstrated adequate reliability (α = 0.82) with two factors, Trust and Connectedness with Others and Care Practices, extracted and contributed to 57.9% of the total variance. Conclusions: The 13-item of EWS-R can be considered as a reliable and predictive scale for assessing quality of life and overall satisfaction on people living in long-term care facilities.

Keywords:

• psychometric
• resident satisfaction
• person-centred care
• wellbeing

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the support from the management team and staff at care facilities involved. The first author would like to acknowledge the statistical advice provided by the quantitative research group from the Health and Ageing Research Team (HART) at Massey University, New Zealand.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.