Self-Care Ability
COMPLICATIONS
The self-designed questionnaire for self-care ability primarily assessed the level of competence in performing gastric tube care behaviors by patients or primary caregivers. It covers the following 3 dimensions: measures for tube feeding, prevention of complications, and observation of symptoms of complications. The self-designed questionnaire consists of 11 items, which are rated using a 5-point Likert scale, with response options of ”always“ (5 points), ”often“ (4 points), ”sometimes“ (3 points), ”rarely“ (2 points), and ”never“ (1 point). After revisions, the second round of expert review yielded a CVI of 0.98. The internal consistency reliability of the ”self-care ability scale“ was Cronbach α=.78.