School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edith Cowan Univeristy, Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Postgraduate Centre for Nursing Studies, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.
J Adv Nurs. 2019 Oct;75(10):2246-2258. doi: 10.1111/jan.14099. Epub 2019 Jul 10.
To develop and psychometrically test the needs of children questionnaire (NCQ), a new instrument to measure school-aged children's self-reported psychosocial physical and emotional needs in paediatric wards.
This is an instrument development study based on recommendations for developing a reliable and valid questionnaire.
The NCQ was developed over three phases between February 2013-April 2017 and included item generation; content adequacy assessment; questionnaire administration; factor analysis; internal consistency assessment and construct validity. Psychometric properties were assessed after 193 school-aged children completed the needs of children's questionnaire in four paediatric areas in Australia and New Zealand.
The development and validation of the NCQ over two countries resulted in a 16-item, four-category tool to measure the self-reported importance and fulfilment of school-aged children's needs in hospital. Cronbach's alpha for the combined samples was 0.93.
The NCQ bridges a gap to measure the level of importance and fulfilment of school-aged children's self-reported needs in hospital. Future testing and validation is needed in other paediatric areas and countries.
The 16-item NCQ is a valid measure to evaluate if the quality of care delivered and received in hospital is in line with what children self-report as important and required and to date indicates good usability and utility. Child self-reports are essential to inform healthcare delivery, policy, research and theory development from a child and family-centred care lens that honours the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the best interests of the child.
开发和心理测试儿童需求问卷（NCQ），这是一种新的工具，用于测量儿科病房中学龄儿童自我报告的心理社会、身体和情感需求。
这是一项基于开发可靠和有效的问卷建议的工具开发研究。
NCQ 是在 2013 年 2 月至 2017 年 4 月期间分三个阶段开发的，包括项目生成；内容充足性评估；问卷管理；因子分析；内部一致性评估和结构有效性。在澳大利亚和新西兰的四个儿科领域，有 193 名学龄儿童完成了儿童需求问卷后，评估了心理测量学特性。
在两个国家的发展和验证，产生了一个 16 项、四项类别的工具，用于测量医院中学龄儿童自我报告需求的重要性和满足程度。综合样本的 Cronbach's alpha 为 0.93。
NCQ 填补了衡量医院中学龄儿童自我报告需求的重要性和满足程度的空白。未来需要在其他儿科领域和国家进行测试和验证。
16 项 NCQ 是一种有效的衡量标准，可以评估在医院提供和接受的护理质量是否符合儿童自我报告的重要性和要求，迄今为止表明具有良好的可用性和实用性。儿童自我报告对于从儿童和家庭为中心的护理视角为医疗保健提供、政策、研究和理论发展提供信息至关重要，这一视角尊重联合国儿童权利公约和儿童的最大利益。
