Hickman Ronald L, Pinto Melissa D, Lee Eunsuk, Daly Barbara J
Case Western Reserve University, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Cleveland, OH 44106-4904, USA.
J Nurs Meas. 2012;20(1):21-34. doi: 10.1891/1061-3749.20.1.21.
The decision regret scale (DRS) is a five-item instrument that captures an individual's regret associated with a healthcare decision. Cross-sectional data were collected from 109 cardiac patients who decided to receive an internal cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, assessments of the internal reliability consistency (alpha = .86), and discriminant validity established the DRS as a reliable and valid measure of decision regret in ICD recipients. The DRS, a psychometrically sound instrument, has relevance for clinicians and researchers vested in optimizing the decisional outcomes of ICD recipients. Future research is needed to examine the reliability and validity of the DRS in a larger and more diverse sample of ICD recipients.
决策后悔量表(DRS)是一种包含五个条目的工具,用于衡量个体对医疗决策的后悔程度。我们收集了109名决定接受植入式心律转复除颤器(ICD)的心脏病患者的横断面数据。探索性和验证性因素分析、内部信度一致性评估(α = 0.86)以及区分效度,均证实DRS是衡量ICD接受者决策后悔程度的可靠且有效的指标。DRS作为一种心理测量学上合理的工具,对致力于优化ICD接受者决策结果的临床医生和研究人员具有重要意义。未来需要开展研究,以检验DRS在更大且更多样化的ICD接受者样本中的信度和效度。