Zarit caregiver burden scale: Evidence of validity in Mexico
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Impact of care, quality of life, psychometric properties, confirmatory factor analysis.
Abstract
The purpose was to obtain evidence of the validity of the Zarit Burden Scale in informal primary caregivers of children with chronic illness, in a hospital in Mexico City. The sample consisted of 252 participants. The instruments used were Zarit Burden Interview (CBI), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the scale resulted in three factors which explain 50% of the variance. Cronbach's alpha was .84 and the model fit well with values equal to or above 0.90. The criterion validity obtained between the GHQ-28 and the CBI, showed a value r=0.46. The construct validity was estimated correlating the PSS and the CBI, obtaining a value r=0.36.Downloads
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2014-06-06
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Montero Pardo X., Jurado Cárdenas S., Valencia Cruz A., Méndez Venega J. y Mora Magaña I. (2014). Zarit caregiver burden scale: Evidence of validity in Mexico. Psicooncología, 11(1), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_PSIC.2014.v11.n1.44918
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