Development and Validity Testing of an Assessment Tool for Domestic Elder Abuse

Conclusions/Implications for Practice:
The results of validity testing established the preliminary validity of this assessment tool. In addition, as self-neglect is known to damage the well-being of older adults, six of the eight items assessing self-neglect were retained in the ATDEA despite their failure to meet the threshold I-CVI of .78. The remaining two self-neglect items were not included in the ATDEA because of excessively low I-CVI scores (

Source: Journal of Nursing Research - March 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research