caa a22 4500 44580744X CHVBK 20180317145200.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00415-010-5871-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00415-010-5871-2 Validation of the Caregivers' Satisfaction with Stroke Care Questionnaire: C-SASC hospital scale [Elektronische Daten] [Jane Cramm, Mathilde Strating, Anna Nieboer] To date, researchers have lacked a validated instrument to measure stroke caregivers' satisfaction with hospital care. We adjusted a validated patient version of satisfaction with hospital care for stroke caregivers and tested the 11-item caregivers' satisfaction with hospital care (C-SASC hospital scale) on caregivers of stroke patients admitted to nine stroke service facilities in the Netherlands. Stroke patients were identified through the stroke service facilities; caregivers were identified through the patients. We collected admission demographic data from the caregivers and gave them the C-SASC hospital scale. We tested the instrument by means of structural equation modeling and examined its validity and reliability. After the elimination of three items, the confirmatory factor analyses revealed good indices of fit with the resulting eight-item C-SASC hospital scale. Cronbach's α was high (0.85) and correlations with general satisfaction items with hospital care ranged from 0.594 to 0.594 (convergent validity). No significant relations were found with health and quality of life (divergent validity). Such results indicate strong construct validity. We conclude that the C-SASC hospital scale is a promising instrument for measuring stroke caregivers' satisfaction with hospital stroke care. The Author(s), 2010 Stroke caregivers nationallicence Caregiver satisfaction nationallicence Acute stroke care nationallicence Stroke services nationallicence Stroke nationallicence Cramm Jane Institute of Health Policy and Management (iBMG), Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Strating Mathilde Institute of Health Policy and Management (iBMG), Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Nieboer Anna Institute of Health Policy and Management (iBMG), Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Journal of Neurology Springer-Verlag 258/6(2011-06-01), 1008-1012 0340-5354 258:6<1008 2011 258 415 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-010-5871-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-010-5871-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cramm Jane Institute of Health Policy and Management (iBMG), Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Strating Mathilde Institute of Health Policy and Management (iBMG), Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nieboer Anna Institute of Health Policy and Management (iBMG), Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Neurology Springer-Verlag 258/6(2011-06-01), 1008-1012 0340-5354 258:6<1008 2011 258 415 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer