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Factor Structure of the Cultural Competence Items in the National Home and Hospice Care Survey.
Medical Care 2018 April
BACKGROUND: There is a need for validated measures of cultural competency practices in home health and hospice care (HHHC).
OBJECTIVE: To establish the factor structure of the cultural competency items included in the agency-component of the 2007 public-use National Home and Hospice Care Survey file.
DATA SOURCE: We used weighted survey data from 1036 HHHC agencies.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: We used exploratory factor analyses to identify a preliminary factor structure, and then performed confirmatory factor analysis to provide further support for identified factor structure.
MEASURES: We examined 9 cultural competency items.
RESULTS: Exploratory factor analyses suggested an interpretable 2-factor solution: (1) the provision of mandatory cultural competency training; and (2) the provision of cultural competency communication practices. Each factor consisted of 3 items. The remaining 3 items did not load well on these factors. A similar, but more restrictive, confirmatory factor analysis model without cross-loadings supported the 2-factor model: (Equation is included in full-text article.)=9.50, P=0.30, root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA)=0.01, comparative fit index (CFI)=0.99, Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI)=0.99.
CONCLUSIONS: Two constructs with 3 items each appeared to be internally valid measures of cultural competency in this nationally representative survey of HHHC agencies: cultural competency training and cultural competency communication practices. These measures could be used by HHHC managers in quality improvement efforts and by policy makers in monitoring cultural competency practices.
OBJECTIVE: To establish the factor structure of the cultural competency items included in the agency-component of the 2007 public-use National Home and Hospice Care Survey file.
DATA SOURCE: We used weighted survey data from 1036 HHHC agencies.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: We used exploratory factor analyses to identify a preliminary factor structure, and then performed confirmatory factor analysis to provide further support for identified factor structure.
MEASURES: We examined 9 cultural competency items.
RESULTS: Exploratory factor analyses suggested an interpretable 2-factor solution: (1) the provision of mandatory cultural competency training; and (2) the provision of cultural competency communication practices. Each factor consisted of 3 items. The remaining 3 items did not load well on these factors. A similar, but more restrictive, confirmatory factor analysis model without cross-loadings supported the 2-factor model: (Equation is included in full-text article.)=9.50, P=0.30, root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA)=0.01, comparative fit index (CFI)=0.99, Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI)=0.99.
CONCLUSIONS: Two constructs with 3 items each appeared to be internally valid measures of cultural competency in this nationally representative survey of HHHC agencies: cultural competency training and cultural competency communication practices. These measures could be used by HHHC managers in quality improvement efforts and by policy makers in monitoring cultural competency practices.
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