Mobility care in nursing homes: development and psychometric evaluation of the kinaesthetics competence self-evaluation (KCSE) scale

• Main Authors: Heidrun Gattinger (Author), Beate Senn (Author), Virpi Hantikainen (Author), Sascha Köpke (Author), Stefan Ott (Author), Helena Leino-Kilpi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Impaired mobility is a prevalent condition among care-dependent persons living in nursing homes. Therefore, competence development of nursing staff in mobility care is important. This study aimed to develop and initially test the Kinaesthetics Competence Self-Evaluation (KCSE) sc...