Development and Validation of a Person-Centered Care Assessment Questionnaire for Daycare Centers for Older Adults

Abstract

Daycare services serve to prolong aging at home. This decreases both families’ care burden and the government’s financial burden. We identified key factors in the person-centered approach of South Korean daycare center workers to develop and validate a Korean person-centered care questionnaire. Twenty-one items were developed, and 10 expert interviews were conducted. The items were applied to 271 daycare center staff (19.2% male vs. 80.0% female, mean age = 50.68 ± 11.37 years) to evaluate their reliability and validity. Twenty items concerning intimate relationships and the environment, consumers’ self-determination, and home-likeness domains were derived, explaining 40.28%, 10.44%, and 6.97% of the total variance, respectively. The overall tool’s Cronbach’s alpha was 0.905, demonstrating internal consistency. Inter-rater agreement ranged from 0.221 (fair) to 0.765 (good). This tool will be useful for individual staff members as well as for the National Health Insurance Service’s evaluations of service quality at daycare centers.

Evaluating person-centered care in residential care facilities from the perspective of caregivers in South Korea: a survey

“…In South Korea, the PCC Assessment Questionnaire for Daycare Center Staff consisted of a total of 20 questions in 3 areas, as follows: Intimate relationships and environment (10 items), consumers’ self-determination (6 items), and home-likeness (4 items) [ 34 ]. The service of daycare centers are an intermediate type between residential facilities and home services, and it is difficult to compare them precisely.…”

“…A study on the PCC measurement for LTC facilities is the PCC Assessment Tool [ 32 ] and Person-centered Climate Questionnaire-Resident version [ 33 ], developed by Edvardsson et al Its validity is translated into Korean [ 25 ], in a study that proved its reliability [ 26 ]. A study that developed a PCC measurement tool for daycare centers for older adults was translated into Korean and its reliability and validity was proven [ 34 ].…”