Can you be a little more descriptive of the type of infant caregiving concept you are seeking to hear more about as there are so many (attachment, infant care competence, mothering role, mother-infant interaction).  there are many questionnaires/scales and behavioural assessments). Also, they are mostly geared toward others and not parents/fathers.

I want a questionnaire like this one :«Measuring caregiving experience. As a metric of caregiving experience, the ACE (Gustafson et al., 1998) was given to each participant. The ACE includes questions about general (e.g., amount of time spent caring for, or in the presence of, infants) and specific experience with infants (e.g., whether an individual has ever diapered, bathed, or fed an infant). Caregiving experience was measured with the total experience score, a cumulative score that includes amount of time spent in the presence of an infant, caring for an infant, and a sum of specific caregiving ex- periences, including bathing, feeding, and changing. » (Irwin, J. R. (2003). Parent and nonparent perception of the multimodal infant cry. Infancy, 4(4), 503-516.)

Hello

There are many scales with slightly different focuses.  I have placed 2 sources and abstracts below, I think the 2nd one looks like a great article and scale to consider for your work.

(1) the 1st scale is one that I developed, the Infant Care Questionnaire, but it measures emotionality, responsivenes and mom & baby with a focus on how able the mother feels caring for and interacting with the infant. The source and abstract for the artilcle are below and I can provide more information, if desired:

1. J Nurs Meas. 2002 Fall;10(2):97-110.

The infant care questionnaire: assessment of reliability and validity in a sample

of healthy mothers.

Secco L(1).

Abstract

Few instruments are available to assess perceptions of competence in the specific

maternal role function of infant care provider. This article reports on a

methodological study of the development and evaluation of the Infant Care

Questionnaire (ICQ), a self-report scale designed to measure the mother's

perceptions of her abilities and competence as an infant care provider. The

sample consisted of healthy low-risk primiparous and multiparous mothers (N =

164) of term infants. Principal components factor analysis with a Varimax

rotation produced a three factor solution that explained 42% of the total

variance. The three factors were Mom&Baby, Emotionality, and Responsiveness with

Cronbach alpha coefficients of .86, .79, and .58, respectively. Validity evidence

included higher Mom&Baby scores for multiparous mothers, F (1, 139) = 10.78, p =

.001; those with greater time in the mothering role, F (2, 138) = 21.78, p =

.000; and a significant correlation with the similar Maternal Confidence Scale, r

(155) = .48, p = .000. Acquisition of competence was shown in a greater

proportion of mothers rated "competent" at five weeks compared with one week

postnatal, chi 2 (1, N = 156) = 22.77, p = .000. While the ICQ demonstrated

adequate reliability and validity, establishment of clinical relevance and

appropriateness with other groups is required.

PMID: 12619531 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

However, I think the the Baby Care Questionnaire:source described below sounds more like the type of scale you are looking for:

(2)

Winstanley, A., & Gattis, M. (2013). The Baby Care Questionnaire: A measure of parenting principles and practices during infancy. Infant Behavior & Development, 36(4), 762–775. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.08.004

The Baby Care Questionnaire: A measure of parenting principles and practices during infancy☆

Alice Winstanley1 and Merideth Gattis⁎

Abstract

The current report provides a new framework to explore the role of parenting practices and principles during infancy. We identify structure and attunement as key parenting principles during infancy. Structure represents reliance on regularity and routines in daily life. Attunement represents reliance on infant cues and close physical contact. We suggest parents’ relative endorsement of these parenting principles is related to their choices about practices such as feeding, holding and night-time sleeping. We designed the Baby Care Questionnaire to measure parents’ endorsement of structure and attunement, as well as their daily parenting practices. We report data demonstrating the factor structure, reliability and validity of the BCQ. The BCQ, to our knowledge, is the first comprehensive measure of parenting practices and principles during infancy. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for the measure.

I hope this helps you!

The one I see used the most often is the Baby Care Questionnaire.  I have attached an article that specifically discusses the instrument.

  Note - If you search on "caregiver" instead of "infant care" or "baby care," you will find a huge number of questionnaires that measure the experiences of adults taking care of other adults.

Brennan, J., George, C., & Solomon, J. (2013). The Caregiving Experiences Questionnaire: Age 1 1/2 to 5 years. Unpublished manuscript. Mills College. Oakland, CA.

Brennan, J., & Walsh, J. (2015). The Caregiving Experiences Questionnaire: A Cross-Cultural Validation:Poster 16. In: Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. Taylor & Francis, e40. doi: 10.1080/02646838.2015.1115265.

Thanks so much for recommending our work Loretta and Julia. Researchers who are interested in the Baby Care Questionnaire may also be interested in a subsequent paper in which we examined stability and continuity of parental beliefs longitudinally.

Article Consistency of maternal cognitions and principles across the...

We have a new longitudinal project with the Baby Care Questionnaire that begins during pregnancy and examines changes in beliefs with experience. To quantify experience with care, we are asking mothers-to-be about other children, and also using a question from Porter & Hsu (2003) about non-parental care responsibilities. I don't know of any other other attempts to quantify caregiving experience, but if other people have suggestions, please do post them to this question thread.

Article First-Time Mothers' Perceptions of Efficacy During the Trans...

We have a new paper on the Baby Care Questionnaire (BCQ), which assesses parenting beliefs about attunement and structure in infant care. Attunement refers to the value of reading and responding to infant cues, such as hunger versus satiety and distress versus calm. Structure refers to the value of regularity and routines in infant care, such as schedules for feeding and sleeping. Like many belief measures, the BCQ is an ordinal scale, which imposes limitations on statistical testing. We applied Rasch methodology to assess the BCQ’s psychometric properties in samples from the UK and New Zealand. We found evidence of strong reliability and invariance across countries. The paper also provides conversion algorithms for converting ordinal scores to interval scores, which enhances the precision of the BCQ.

If you think the Baby Care Questionnaire would be useful to you in a research, policy, or practice setting, please get in touch to discuss.

Article Applying Rasch Methodology to Examine and Enhance Precision ...