Article: A psychometric evaluation of a negative mood scale in the MDS-HC using a large sample of community-dwelling Hong Kong Chinese older adults

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Title	A psychometric evaluation of a negative mood scale in the MDS-HC using a large sample of community-dwelling Hong Kong Chinese older adults
Authors	Leung, DYP3 Leung, AYM1 Chi, I2
Keywords	Chinese community dwellers Confirmatory factor analysis Elderly Minimum Data Set-Home Care Negative mood Reliability
Issue Date	2012
Publisher	Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/
Citation	Age and Ageing, 2012, v. 41 n. 3, p. 317-322 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afr157
Abstract	Background: negative mood is an important construct when assessing the health of older persons. The profile of mood states questionnaire is commonly used to measure mood; however, it might not be suitable for older adults with low education level and those who are not originated North American.Objective: to examine a negative mood scale formed by nine items in the Mood Section of the Minimum Data Set-Home Care of the Resident Assessment Instrument. Methods: a secondary analysis of data from 3,523 older persons aged 60 or over who had first applied for the long-term care services in Hong Kong and completed the screening tool in 2006. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to test the factor structure and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis to test the gender invariance of the Negative Mood Scale in the Minimum Data Set-Home Care. Its reliability using Cronbach's alpha was examined. Results: both a three-factor model at the first level and a one-factor model at the second level provided excellent fits to the overall data, and held equally well for both males and females, and two randomly split samples. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses revealed both genders demonstrating an equivalent pattern of factor loadings. Cronbach's alpha value was acceptable for the overall data (0.66). Conclusions: the Negative Mood Scale is a reliable and valid scale and both genders responded to it using the same framework and metric, suggesting it could be used to measure negative mood in Chinese community-dwelling older adults. Further testing of the instrument is needed. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved.
ISSN	0002-0729 2011 Impact Factor: 3.09 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.227
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afr157
ISI Accession Number ID	WOS:000303335000007
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dc.contributor.author	Leung, DYP
dc.contributor.author	Leung, AYM
dc.contributor.author	Chi, I
dc.date.accessioned	2011-09-23T06:12:13Z
dc.date.available	2011-09-23T06:12:13Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	Background: negative mood is an important construct when assessing the health of older persons. The profile of mood states questionnaire is commonly used to measure mood; however, it might not be suitable for older adults with low education level and those who are not originated North American.Objective: to examine a negative mood scale formed by nine items in the Mood Section of the Minimum Data Set-Home Care of the Resident Assessment Instrument. Methods: a secondary analysis of data from 3,523 older persons aged 60 or over who had first applied for the long-term care services in Hong Kong and completed the screening tool in 2006. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to test the factor structure and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis to test the gender invariance of the Negative Mood Scale in the Minimum Data Set-Home Care. Its reliability using Cronbach's alpha was examined. Results: both a three-factor model at the first level and a one-factor model at the second level provided excellent fits to the overall data, and held equally well for both males and females, and two randomly split samples. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses revealed both genders demonstrating an equivalent pattern of factor loadings. Cronbach's alpha value was acceptable for the overall data (0.66). Conclusions: the Negative Mood Scale is a reliable and valid scale and both genders responded to it using the same framework and metric, suggesting it could be used to measure negative mood in Chinese community-dwelling older adults. Further testing of the instrument is needed. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved.
dc.description.nature	postprint
dc.identifier.citation	Age and Ageing, 2012, v. 41 n. 3, p. 317-322 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afr157
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afr157
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dc.identifier.hkuros	194249
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dc.identifier.isi	WOS:000303335000007
dc.identifier.issn	0002-0729 2011 Impact Factor: 3.09 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.227
dc.identifier.issue	3
dc.identifier.pmid	22126988
dc.identifier.scopus	eid_2-s2.0-84860527294
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10722/140465
dc.identifier.volume	41
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/
dc.publisher.place	United Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartof	Age and Ageing
dc.relation.references	References in Scopus
dc.rights	This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Age and Ageing following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Age and Ageing, 2012, v. 41 n. 3, p. 317-322 is available online at: http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/3/317
dc.rights	Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License
dc.subject	Chinese community dwellers
dc.subject	Confirmatory factor analysis
dc.subject	Elderly
dc.subject	Minimum Data Set-Home Care
dc.subject	Negative mood
dc.subject	Reliability
dc.title	A psychometric evaluation of a negative mood scale in the MDS-HC using a large sample of community-dwelling Hong Kong Chinese older adults
dc.type	Article

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The University of Hong Kong
University of Southern California
Chinese University of Hong Kong