@article{10272/22432,
year = {2023},
month = {5},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22432},
abstract = {It is essential to understand the behavior and attitudes of nurses towards older people to
improve clinical practice and quality of care in the gerontological sector. A clearer understanding
of the attitudes that drive nurses toward the desire to work with older people would be a good
starting point to encourage the development of positive and nurturing attitudes. A cross-sectional
study with non-probabilistic sampling and a self-administered questionnaire was conducted among
381 nursing students of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Castilla La-Mancha to evaluate the
psychometric properties of the Spanish Version of the Kogan’s Attitudes Towards Older People Scale
(KAOP-S). Construct validity, internal consistency, and reliability were assessed. In total, 298 females
and 83 males completed the questionnaires. Their mean age was 20.42 years. The results revealed a
Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.75 for the scale, which is comparable with other published versions
of the KAOP Scale. The results of the exploratory factor analysis established that the scale has a
two-factor solution and an explained variance of 25% in the sample. The KAOP-S was found to be
a reliable and valid tool with good content and construct validity for assessing nursing students’
attitudes towards older people.},
organization = {This work was supported by the following research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation: XMIDAS (ref. PID2021-122640OB-I00).},
publisher = {MDPI},
title = {Adaptation and Validation of the Spanish Version of Kogan's Attitude toward Older People Scale (KAOP)},
doi = {10.3390/healthcare11091321},
author = {Fernández Muñoz, Juan José and Parra Fernández, María Laura and Onieva Zafra, María Dolores and Expósito González, Raúl and Marquínez Rengifo, José Manuel and Fernández Martínez, Elia},
}