Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
https://trends.org.br/article/doi/10.47626/2237-6089-2020-0179
Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Factor analysis of the Resilience Scale for Brazilian caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease

Alexandre Magno Frota Monteiro, José Pedro Simões Neto, Raquel Luiza Santos, Nathália Kimura, Maria Alice Tourinho Baptista, Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado

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Abstract

Introduction
Resilience is a dynamic process that acts to modify the effects of an adverse life event. In this study, we aimed to test the construct validity of the Resilience Scale by employing exploratory and confirmatory procedures, and to investigate the relationship between caregiver’s resilience and clinical status of people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Methods
A sample of 143 dyads of people with Alzheimer’s disease and their primary caregivers were included.

Results
The total Resilience Scale mean score was 140.3 (standard deviation [SD] = 16.289), ranging from 25 to 175, indicating a high level of resilience. Cronbach’s alpha was high (α = 0.77), indicating excellent internal consistency. The mean of corrected item-total correlation coefficients was moderate. The Resilience Scale presented a four-factor solution with a well-defined structure: sense of life and self-sufficiency, perseverance, self-confidence and equanimity, and meaningfulness.

Conclusion
The findings indicate excellent internal consistency of the Resilience Scale when used to evaluate psychological and emotional difficulties of caregivers, even though the correlations observed between the Resilience Scale and clinical variables were not significant for functionality, mood, awareness, neuropsychiatric symptoms, or burden.

Keywords

Resilience; dementia; factorial analysis; caregiver; validity
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