Burden Scale for Family Caregivers, Long Form (BSFC)

Overview

Purpose

Measure of overall perceived burden resulting from home care

Respondent

Caregiver

Administration Method

Survey

Administration Mode

In-person

Developer

*Gräsel, Chiu, & Oliver, 2003 with Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Mental Health Services (Canada) (manual: ) *Graessel, et al. 2014:

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Population

Caregiver

Instrument Citation(s)

Psychometric Citations

• Elmar, G., Chiu, T., & Oliver, R. (2003). Development and Validation of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers (BSFC). Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Mental Health Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  Type of Publication

  Technical report

  Instrument Language

  German, English

  Sample: Age (Mean and Range)

  Not Reported

  Sample: Age Group

  Not Reported

  Sample: Countries/State

  Canada

  Sample: Disability Type

  N/A

  Sample: Gender (%male)

  Not Reported

  Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)

  Not Reported

  Sample: Sampling Strategy

  Convenience Sample

  Sample: Size

  Not Reported

  Reliability: Internal Consistency

  Cronbach’s Alpha for the overall survey (ɑ= from .90 to .91)

  Reliability: Split-half

  Pearson's correlation r>.80 between halves for the overall survey

  Reliability: Test-retest

  test-retest correlation t for the overalll survey (r = 0.94)

  Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)

  exploratory factor analysis of the items produced 1 factors with factor loadings >. 45

  Validity: Criterion Validity (Concurrent and Predictive)

  correlated with other measures

  Study design

  Cross-sectional

• Grasessel, E., & Berth, H. Lichet, T., & Grau, H. (2014). Subjective caregiver burden: validity of the 10-item short version of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers BSFC-s. BMC Geriatrics, 14(23), 1-9.

  Type of Publication

  Peer review

  Instrument Language

  German

  Sample: Age (Mean and Range)

  Mean=59.2 Years

  Sample: Age Group

  18-64 Years; 65 + Years

  Sample: Countries/State

  Germany

  Sample: Disability Type

  N/A

  Sample: Gender (%male)

  27%

  Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)

  Not Reported

  Sample: Sampling Strategy

  Not Reported

  Sample: Size

  351

  Reliability: Internal Consistency

  Cronbach’s Alpha for the overalll survey (ɑ= 0.92)

  Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)

  Correlation with the severity of the dementia syndrome = -.21; with disturbing behavior = .53;

  Validity: Criterion Validity (Concurrent and Predictive)

  predicted the institutionalization of people with dementia

  Study design

  Cross-sectional