Assessing Willingness to Care for Persons With AIDS: Validation of a New Measure
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Research on Social Work Practice
- Vol. 11 (1) , 118-130
- https://doi.org/10.1177/104973150101100108
Abstract
Objective: This article describes the development and validation of the Willingness to Care Scale, a multifactorial measure assessing the experiences of informal caregivers for persons living with AIDS (PLAs). Willingness to care describes one’s attitude toward providing emotional, instrumental, and nursing support. Method: Interviews were conducted with 155 caregivers of PLAs on caregiving and psychosocial concerns. Results: Strong evidence was found for factorial and content validity and reliability. Conclusion: The tool may be used by social workers to assess the potential for and monitor the functioning of task-focused caregiving relationships. Issues in sampling for HIV/AIDS research are discussed.Keywords
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