How do researchers identify and recruit dementia caregivers? A scoping review.

Background And Objectives: Studies involving dementia caregivers are essential to transform care and inform new policies. However, identifying and recruiting this population for research is an ongoing challenge. This scoping review aimed to capture the current methodology for identifying and recruiting dementia caregivers in clinical studies.

Does an "EZ" Survey Improve the Data Quality of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Clinician and Group Survey 3.1?

Completing self-administered patient experience surveys is challenging for many patients. We randomized adult patients receiving care from an urban safety net provider to complete the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Clinician and Group Survey 3.1 (CG-CAHPS 3.

Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of the Retirement Knowledge Scale (RKS).

The Retirement Knowledge Scale (RKS) consists of 10 questions that assess three aspects of financial planning for retirement: reflection about retirement plans, engagement with information on retirement preparedness, and evaluation of retirement preparedness. The RKS was administered to 1350 adults 50 and older in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) as an experimental module for the 2020 wave along with the "Big Three" questions of financial literacy that assess knowledge about inflation, interest rate, and risk. Results of the study provide support for the reliability of the RKS scales in the full sample and separately for non-retired and retired adults.

Support for a Single Underlying Dimension of Self-Reported Health in a Sample of Adults with Low Back Pain in the United States.

There is increasing interest in measuring "whole person" health and deriving an overall summary score. Underlying physical and mental health dimensions have been found consistently in prior studies of self-reported health, but it is unclear whether a single underlying health factor is supported across health domains. We examine the dimensionality of nine domains from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)-29+2 profile measure, the PROMIS social isolation scale, the Personal Wellbeing Index, and the EQ-5D-5L preference score in a sample of 1,256 adults with back pain in the United States: mean age was 55 (range 18-94), 52% female, 74% non-Hispanic White, 61% were married or living with a spouse, and the highest level of education completed for 35% of the sample was a high school degree or general education diploma.