Experience of Caregiving Inventory (ECI; see Appendix Sample Clauses

Experience of Caregiving Inventory (ECI; see Appendix. 8) The Experience of Caregiving Inventory (Xxxxxxxx et al., 1996) is a 66-item self-report questionnaire developed to assess caregiver’s negative and positive appraisals of their experience of caring for someone with mental health problems. Respondents rate how often they have thought about a particular issue in the last month prior to completing the questionnaire on a 5-point scale ranging from 0 (never) to 4 (nearly always). There are 10 subscales, 8 relate to negative aspects of care-giving (e.g., stigma, loss) and 2 relate to the positive aspects (i.e., positive personal experiences and good aspects of the relationship). These subscales are summed to create two summary subscale scores: negative caregiving appraisals and positive caregiving appraisals. The current study used both subscale and summary subscale scores. Higher scores indicate more negative or positive appraisals. The scale has good reliability and validity (Xxxxxxxx et al., 1996) and has been used extensively with carers of people with psychosis (e.g., Xxxxxxxx et al., 2008; Xxxxxxxxx et al., 2000; Xxxxxxxxx et al., 2003).