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:
- Item Count
- 28
- Population
- Caregiver
Instrument Citation(s)
Burden Scale for Family Caregivers.
http://www.psychiatrie.uk-erlangen.de/med-psychologie-soziologie/psychometrische-versorgungsforschung/burden-scale-for-family-caregivers-bsfc/
Instrument Domains
| Domain | Number of Items |
|---|---|
| Level of Caregiver Well-Being | 28 |
| Caregiver Support | 0 |
| Access to resources | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support involvement | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support wellbeing | 0 |
| Training and skill-building | 0 |
| Choice and Control | 0 |
| Choice of services and supports | 0 |
| Personal choices and goals | 0 |
| Personal freedoms and dignity of risk | 0 |
| Self-direction | 0 |
| Community Inclusion | 0 |
| Employment | 0 |
| Meaningful activity | 0 |
| Resources and settings to facilitate inclusion | 0 |
| Social connectedness and relationships | 0 |
| Transportation | 0 |
| Consumer Leadership in System Development | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful caregiver involvement | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| System supports meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| Equity | 0 |
| Availability | 0 |
| Equitable access and resource allocation | 0 |
| Transparency and consistency | 0 |
| Fluctuation of Need | 0 |
| Holistic Health and Functioning | 0 |
| Health promotion and prevention | 0 |
| Individual health and functioning | 0 |
| Human and Legal Rights | 0 |
| Freedom from abuse and neglect | 0 |
| Informed decision-making | 0 |
| Optimizing the preservation of legal and human rights | 0 |
| Privacy | 0 |
| Supporting individuals in exercising their human and legal rights | 0 |
| Person-Centered Planning and Coordination | 0 |
| Assessment | 0 |
| Coordination | 0 |
| Person-centered planning | 0 |
| Service Delivery and Effectiveness | 0 |
| Delivery | 0 |
| Person's needs met and goals realized | 0 |
| System Performance and Accountability | 0 |
| Data management and use | 0 |
| Evidence-based practice | 0 |
| Financing and service delivery structures | 0 |
| Workforce | 0 |
| Adequately compensated with benefits | 0 |
| Culturally competent | 0 |
| Demonstrated competencies when appropriate | 0 |
| Person-centered approach to services | 0 |
| Safety of and respect for the worker | 0 |
| Staff Turnover | 0 |
| Sufficient workforce numbers dispersion and availability | 0 |
| Workforce engagement and participation | 0 |
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