Self-Care Knowledge Assessment
COMPLICATIONS
The self-care knowledge assessment primarily evaluated the level of understanding by individuals or primary caregivers about self-care for gastric tubes, based on the following 4 dimensions: wound care, tube feeding, complications, and emergency medical care. A self-designed questionnaire with 10 items assessed self-care knowledge, with correct answers given a score of 1 and incorrect or unknown answers given a score of 0. A higher score indicates better self-care knowledge, with a total possible score of 10 and a minimum score of 0. The content validity index (CVI) during the first round of expert review was 0.58. Following semantic modifications to the eighth item, “emergency situations related to gastric tubes,” to remove compound options, as suggested by the experts, the second round of expert review yielded a CVI of 1. The internal consistency of the ”self-care knowledge scale“ was determined to be Cronbach α=.66.