SCDI: Strain of Care for Delirium Index
2004A 20-item measure of nurses' perceived difficulty and strain when caring for people with delirium-related behaviours. It measures workforce experience, not the patient's delirium status.
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Tool and original sources
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Original paper
- Principal sourceMilisen K, Cremers S, Foreman MD, Vandevelde E, Haspeslagh M, De Geest S, et al. The strain of care for Delirium Index: a new instrument to assess nurses' strain in caring for patients with delirium. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2004. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2004.03.005.
This is the principal published source for SCDI. It is the main source for the method, its intended use and the evidence available at publication.
At a glance
- Purpose
- Experience and impact
- Population
- Adult
- Setting
- General / acute hospital, Intensive care
- Time
- self-completed nurse questionnaire; formal time not reported
- Items
- 20
- Score or threshold
- No diagnostic or clinical intervention cutoff
Format: Twenty self-report items use four-point difficulty ratings; higher totals indicate greater perceived care strain.
Evidence
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Strain of Care for Delirium Index
- Evidence summary
- psychometric-validation
- Source-study sample
- n = 190
- Citation
- Milisen K, Cremers S, Foreman MD, Vandevelde E, Haspeslagh M, De Geest S, Abraham I The strain of care for Delirium Index: a new instrument to assess nurses' strain in caring for patients with delirium International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2004;41(7):775-783. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2004.03.005
Copyright and reuse
- Version
- Original 20-item Strain of Care for Delirium Index reported in 2004
- Information checked
- 2026-07-19
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