Development of an Assessment Tools for caregivers’ Caring Behaviors of Children Under Five Years with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
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Research tools are important and play an important role in research as they are employed to measure the situations and the behaviors that need to be measured. This research aims to develop the tools to assess the caregiving behaviors of caregivers of children under five years with lower respiratory tract infection and verify the quality of the developed tools for maximum benefit of measurement consistent with the objectives.
Purposive sampling was administered to select the samples, namely 5 experts in the field of examining research tools and 10 caregivers of children under five years with lower respiratory tract infection. The research tools comprised two sets of expert evaluation forms for instrument quality assessment and six sets of caregiver behavior assessment tools for caregivers of children under five with lower respiratory tract infections. The research process consisted of 3 steps. 1) The research tools were constructed based on related concepts and theories. 2) The research tools were verified for quality by using the Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) and the Content Validity Index (S-CVI) and then trying out the research tools. 3) Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the research tools through reliability analysis.
The findings revealed that the developed caregivers’ caring behaviors assessment tools for children under five years with lower respiratory tract infection demonstrated strong psychometric properties. The Item-Objective Congruence (IOC) values for individual items ranged from 0.80 to 1.0, the Scale-level Content Validity Index (S-CVI) ranged from 0.98 to 1.0, and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficients ranged from 0.78 to 0.95. These results indicate that the instrument possesses a high level of reliability and is appropriate for assessing caregiving behaviors among caregivers of children under five years old with lower respiratory tract infections.
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