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