Edvardsson David, Mahoney Anne-Marie, Hardy Juanita, McGillion Tony, McLean Anne, Pearce Frances, Salamone Kathryn, Watt Elizabeth
Austin Health Clinical School of Nursing, La Trobe University, Heidelberg, Vic., Australia.
Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
J Clin Nurs. 2015 Sep;24(17-18):2538-44. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12849. Epub 2015 May 11.
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric performance of the six-item Caring Behaviours Inventory in a sample of Australian acute hospital inpatients.
Caring is significant for nursing, and exploring the prevalence of staff-caring behaviours is imperative for high-quality acute care. There is a need for psychometrically sound scales that measures caring in acute care, without imposing extensive respondent burden.
A cross-sectional survey design was used to distribute the six-item Caring Behaviours Inventory to an Australian sample of hospital inpatients (n = 210) in December 2012.
Psychometric evaluation included item performance, construct validity and internal consistency reliability.
The six-item Caring Behaviours Inventory had satisfactory psychometric performance as evidenced by normally distributed scores, a uni-dimensional structure explaining 65% of variance in data, a total Cronbach's α of 0·89 and corrected item-total correlations between 0·51-0·82.
The six-item Caring Behaviours Inventory had satisfactory estimates of validity and reliability when tested in an Australian sample of acute hospital inpatients. The tool contributes to the literature by being a brief and nonburdensome alternative with seemingly strong psychometric properties to be used in future measures of caring in nursing.
The six-item Caring Behaviours Inventory provides a psychometrically tested fundament for reflective clinical discussions on how nurse behaviours facilitate or impede patient experiences of caring. This can benefit quality development in clinical practice as being in tune with patient experiences and expectations is fundamental to high quality services and patient satisfaction.
本研究旨在评估六项关爱行为量表在澳大利亚急性病住院患者样本中的心理测量性能。
关爱对护理工作至关重要，探索医护人员关爱行为的普遍性对于高质量的急性病护理而言势在必行。需要有心理测量学上可靠的量表来衡量急性病护理中的关爱行为，同时不给受访者造成过多负担。
采用横断面调查设计，于2012年12月将六项关爱行为量表分发给澳大利亚医院住院患者样本（n = 210）。
心理测量学评估包括项目性能、结构效度和内部一致性信度。
六项关爱行为量表具有令人满意的心理测量性能，表现为分数呈正态分布、单维结构解释了数据中65%的方差、总的克朗巴哈α系数为0.89以及校正后的项目-总分相关性在0.51至0.82之间。
六项关爱行为量表在澳大利亚急性病住院患者样本中进行测试时，对效度和信度的估计令人满意。该工具作为一种简短且负担不重的替代方法，具有看似强大的心理测量特性，可为未来护理关爱测量的文献做出贡献。
六项关爱行为量表为关于护士行为如何促进或阻碍患者关爱体验的反思性临床讨论提供了经过心理测量学测试的基础。这有助于临床实践中的质量改进，因为与患者体验和期望保持一致是高质量服务和患者满意度的根本。
