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Falls efficacy scale – Formal caregivers: Adaptation and validation in Portuguese nursing homes

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Médicas::Ciências da Saúde
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg04:Educação de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorLavareda Baixinho, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorMarques-Vieira, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorSousa, Luís
dc.contributor.authorAbrantes, António
dc.contributor.authorConceição, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Amaro
dc.contributor.authorHenriques, Maria Adriana
dc.contributor.authorDixe, Maria dos Anjos
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-02T09:53:19Z
dc.date.available2025-10-02T09:53:19Z
dc.date.issued2025-01
dc.descriptionThe authors express their gratitude to all participants for their contributions to the study.
dc.description.abstractThe literature review shows that the fear of falling is present in older persons’, but also in their careers and influences the performance of activities of daily living. The objective of this methodological study was to adapt and validate the Falls Efficacy Scale – Formal Caregivers. The development of the examined scale was based on the Falls Efficacy Scale – International, which was adapted for assessing the fear of falling in formal caregivers. The instrument was filled out by 319 formal caregivers of older people living in 11 Portuguese nursing homes for older people. Their average age was 46.8 ± 10.7 years, they had been working in this role for 13.4 ± 8.2 years, and 67.7 % of them attended vocational training in the workplace after being employed at the nursing home. Falls Efficacy Scale – Formal Caregivers, which contains 16 items, showed good internal consistency (α = 0.848). These items were organized into 3 factors after exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (lesser physical effort activities; intermediate physical effort activities, carried out in safe conditions; and intermediate physical effort activities, carried out in less safe conditions), with adequate convergent validity.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR).
dc.description.sponsorshipThe study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the ethics committee at the Leiria Polytechnic Institute per protocol no CE/IPLEIRIA/46/2020. The study was authorized by the institutions, and the participants were asked to sign free and informed consent forms. This research was funded by Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR). The authors express their gratitude to all participants for their contributions to the study.
dc.description.sponsorshipNursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon
dc.identifier.citationBaixinho, C. L., Marques-Vieira, C., Sousa, L., Abrantes, A., Conceição, N., Martins, A., Henriques, M. A., & Dixe, M. D. A. (2025). Falls efficacy scale - formal caregivers: adaptation and validation in Portuguese nursing homes. Geriatric Nursing, 61, 113-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2024.10.060
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.gerinurse.2024.10.060
dc.identifier.eissn1528-3984
dc.identifier.issn0197-4572
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14182
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0197457224003793
dc.relation.ispartofGeriatric Nursing
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAccidental falls
dc.subjectAged
dc.subjectCaregivers
dc.subjectFear of falling
dc.subjectNursing
dc.titleFalls efficacy scale – Formal caregivers: Adaptation and validation in Portuguese nursing homeseng
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage120
oaire.citation.startPage113
oaire.citation.titleGeriatric Nursing
oaire.citation.volume61
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