Design and content validation of the Transcend instrument for family caregivers
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Caregivers, Chronic diseases, Validation Study, Psychometrics, Nursing TheoryAbstract
Highlights
- Family caregiver transcendence is the ability to modify attitudes, perceptions, and concepts about oneself, the care recipient, and the environment, promoting meaningful personal and relational growth.
- Transcendence allows finding a purpose in the act of caring, enabling connection with the inner self, the care recipient, and a supreme being.
- Measuring the caregiver’s relationship with themselves, the care recipient, and a higher power, allows for the appreciation of transcendence as a growth process.
- The ‘Transcend’ measurement instrument is a valuable tool for integrating self-related aspects into nursing assessment and care planning and is useful for future research in the area.
Introduction: Transcendence is a metaphysical phenomenon of the self that is reflected in caregivers by transforming their attitudes, perceptions, and caregiving meanings about the care recipient and themselves. Objective: To develop and validate the content of the "Transcend" instrument through expert judgment and to determine its preliminary reliability. Materials and Methods: This methodological study focused on the design and content validation, via expert judgment, of an instrument to measure family caregiver transcendence called "Transcend," following the methodology proposed by Waltz. The judges assessed instrument's clarity, coherence, and relevance. After validation, the instrument was administered to 30 caregivers to assess its clarity in the population and its preliminary reliability. Results: Fifteen judges participated in the validation process, and a significant level of agreement was found (p < 0.001) in assessing clarity, coherence, and relevance. The content validity index, both individual and global, was 1.00. All items obtained an Aiken's V value ≥ 0.69, with values falling within the confidence intervals. Preliminary reliability in the pilot testing yielded a Cronbach's alpha of 0.90. Discussion: Validity and concordance indices should be interpreted together to determine the level of content validity based on expert judgment. Conclusions: The Transcend instrument shows adequate content validity and high preliminary reliability, supporting its progression to a second phase of validation, which will be crucial to determining its potential as a tool for assessing transcendence in family caregivers.
How to cite this article: Aya-Roa Kevin Julian, Beltrán-Campos Vicente, Hernández Mariano José Angel, García-Campos María de Lourdes, Ramírez-Gómez Xóchilt Sofia, Núñez-Colín Carlos Alberto. Design and content validation of the Transcend instrument for family caregivers. Revista Cuidarte. 2025;16(2):e4595. https://doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.4595
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