The Caregiving Health Engagement Scale (CHE-s): development and initial validation of a new questionnaire for measuring family caregiver engagement in healthcare

This study was aimed to preliminary validate a cross-disease psychometric measure to assess the psycho-social experience of family caregiver engagement in healthcare (Caregiving Health Engagement Scale, CHE-s), which refers to the caregiver's psychological attitude to be an active, skilled and motivated player in the care process of their loved ones.The study consisted of a mixed methods, multi-stage research. First, a preliminary qualitative...