@article{ref1,
title="Development and psychometric evaluation of the Birmingham Relationship Continuity Measure for acquired brain injury",
journal="Brain injury",
year="2020",
author="Yasmin, Natasha and Keeble, Hayley S. and Riley, Gerard A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE Relationship continuity/discontinuity refers to whether a spouse/partner experiences their current relationship with someone with an acquired brain injury (ABI) as a continuation of their loving pre-injury relationship or as radically changed. The aim of this study was to adapt a questionnaire measure of continuity/discontinuity from dementia research for use in an ABI context and to evaluate the psychometric properties of this adaptation. <br><br>METHOD The questionnaire was adapted in response to feedback from a focus group of ABI caregivers. Its psychometric properties were then evaluated in two studies involving partners of people with ABI. <br><br>RESULTS The measure showed high internal consistency (alpha =.956 in Study 1 and.963 in Study 2), test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation =.960 in Study 1) and discriminative power (Ferguson's delta =.975 in Study 1 and.963 in Study 2). Evidence of construct validity was provided by a predicted pattern of correlations with other relationship questionnaires. Exploratory factor analysis suggested that the questionnaire is unidimensional. <br><br>DISCUSSION A valid and reliable quantitative measure of relationship continuity/discontinuity will enable more robust evaluation of suggestions about this construct that have been made in qualitative studies (e.g. that discontinuity is associated with a greater sense of caregiver burden).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-9052",
doi="10.1080/02699052.2020.1767304",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2020.1767304"
}