Table 2 Exploratory factor analysis of SCIDS-C
Item | RCC sub-scale (N = 174) | PC sub-scale (N = 174) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
How well do you feel you can | Building relationships | sustaining personhood | professionalism | care challenges |
1. understand the feelings of a person with dementia? | 0.85 | |||
2. understand the way a person with dementia interacts with the people and things around them? | 0.80 | |||
3. engage a person with dementia in a conversation? | 0.86 | |||
4. balance the needs of the person with dementia with their relative’s wishes and the service’s limitations? | 0.53 | |||
5. use information about their past (such as what they used to do and their interests), when talking to a person with dementia? | 0.72 | |||
6. change your work to match the changing needs of a person with dementia? | 0.70 | |||
11. protect the dignity of a person with dementia in your work? | 0.65 | |||
16. offer choice to a person with dementia in everyday care (such as what to wear, or what to do)? | 0.52 | |||
7. keep up a positive attitude towards the people you care for? | 0.61 | |||
8. keep up a positive attitude towards the relatives of a person with dementia? | 0.55 | |||
9. keep yourself motivated during a working day? | 0.79 | |||
10. play an active role in your staff team? | 0.81 | |||
12. deal with personal care, such as incontinence in a person with dementia? | 0.54 | |||
13. deal with behavior that challenges in a person with dementia? | 0.66 | |||
14. decide what to do about risk (such as harm to self or others) in a person with dementia? | 0.71 | |||
15. offer stimulation (for the mind, the senses and the body) to a person with dementia in your daily work? | 0.75 | |||
17. engage a person with dementia in creative activities during your normal working day? | 0.71 | |||