Internal consistency and structural validity of the Swiss easy-read Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale for Dementia: A secondary exploratory factor analysis

Project title

Internal consistency and structural validity of the Swiss easy-read Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale for Dementia: A secondary exploratory factor analysis.

Brief project overview

This is Data coming out of the IPOS-Dem project, a Stepped-wedge Cluster Randomised Trial (SW-CRT). Please make shure to check out the SW-CRT protocol for more details at https://www.doi.org/10.1111/jan.14953. A detailed description of the reliability study published based on this data is availiable at https://www.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286557. The trial outcomes are reported in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105351.

Contributors

Frank Spichiger, Andrea Koppitz, André Meichtry

Repository overview

|-- analysis

    |--Efa_FamilyMembers.rmd

    |--Efa_Staff.rmd

    |--readme.md

   |--SD.rmd

|-- data

   |--family.csv

   |--readme.md

   |--staff.csv

|-- documentation

   |--Data_Dictionary.html

   |--readme.md

|-- readme.md

Applicable instructions

The R markdown files were generated using R 4.4.2 in RStudio 2024.12.0+467 for MacOS X you can run them using free software but will need to install R, Rstudio and the packages introduced at the beginning of the files we used.

Additional resources

- Trial report: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105351

- Main study protocol: https://www.doi.org/10.1111/jan.14953

- IPOS-Dem translation and adaption: https://www.doi.org/10.1186/s41687-022-00420-7

- IPOS-Dem inter-rating reliability: https://www.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.028655

- Pos-Pal consortium with more information on the measure: https://www.pos-pal.org