Assessing the agreement between the appraisal of self-care agency scale and the self-care ability scale for the elderly among older stroke patients / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To test the agreement between two new self-care-related instruments,the Chinese version of the Appraisal of Self-care Agency Scale-Revised (ASAS-R-CHI) and the Chinese version of the Self-care Ability Scale for the Elderly (SASE-CHI) among older stroke patients by Bland-Altman method.Methods A random sampling was used to conduct this study in Neurology Department in a tertiary referral hospital in Henan Province,during November 2016 to October 2017.The sample consisted of 500 older stroke patients.Data were collected by a demographic questionnaire,SASE-CHI and ASAS-R-CHI.SPSS 21.0 was used to analyze the data.Results The mean total scores of ASAS-R-CHI and SASE-CHI were 54.98±5.06 and 61.92±7.34,respectively.Partial correlation coefficients between the total score of ASAS-R-CHI and SASE-CHI and their factors were from 0.217 to 0.953,showed significantly correlation (P＜0.01).The difference analysis and ratio analysis of Bland-Altman showed a good consistency of the two scales,with 5.0％ and 4.5％ of the points outside the 95％CI boundaries,separately.Conclusion There is a good agreement between the two instruments among older stroke patients.Each scale has its own characteristics,therefore the users should choose the most appropriate scale according to the specific situation.