Table 3 Item analysis (17 items)
Item How well do you feel you can | Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted |
|---|---|
RCC sub-scale | |
Building relationships | |
1. understand the feelings of a person with dementia? | 0.87 |
2. understand the way a person with dementia interacts with the people and things around them? | 0.87 |
3. engage a person with dementia in a conversation? | 0.87 |
4. balance the needs of the person with dementia with their relative’s wishes and the service’s limitations? | 0.71 |
Sustaining personhood | |
5. use information about their past (such as what they used to do and their interests), when talking to a person with dementia? | 0.87 |
6. change your work to match the changing needs of a person with dementia? | 0.87 |
11. protect the dignity of a person with dementia in your work? | 0.87 |
16. offer choice to a person with dementia in everyday care (such as what to wear, or what to do)? | 0.87 |
PC sub-scale | |
Professionalism | |
7. keep up a positive attitude towards the people you care for? | 0.87 |
8. keep up a positive attitude towards the relatives of a person with dementia? | 0.87 |
9. keep yourself motivated during a working day? | 0.87 |
10. play an active role in your staff team? | 0.87 |
12. deal with personal care, such as incontinence in a person with dementia? | 0.87 |
Care challenges | |
13. deal with behavior that challenges in a person with dementia? | 0.87 |
14. decide what to do about risk (such as harm to self or others) in a person with dementia? | 0.86 |
15. offer stimulation (for the mind, the senses and the body) to a person with dementia in your daily work? | 0.86 |
17. engage a person with dementia in creative activities during your normal working day? | 0.87 |