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