[17].
Face-to-face interviews were carried out in private in the
person’s own home, only one person per house-hold was
interviewed and no proxy respondents were used. Out of a
total of 5,658 house calls, there was an estimated 2,447 eligible
participants identified. Complete interviews were
obtained with 2,021 older people giving a response rate of
83%.
Information was collected on socio-economic details,
health using the Short Form 8 (SF-8), social support using
the Oslo-3 Social Support Scale, type and frequency of mistreatment,
perpetrator characteristics and the impact of the
mistreatment. The SF-8 is an eight-item instrument that
measures two overall physical and mental health constructs.
The aggregated physical and mental health scores were
transformed to achieve norm based scores (mean: 50, SD:
10) based on the general US population