Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Chiropody, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
PLoS One. 2021 Dec 8;16(12):e0260827. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260827. eCollection 2021.
The core implication of nursing professionals' labor is promoting self-care and foster well-being among healthcare service users. The beginning of the healing process starts with the provider, and self-care habits are needed to positively impact on patients' care outcomes at different spheres. Overall, current literature supports the idea that nurses' personal self-care should be a necessary skill to be expected in their professional role. In this regard, the Appraisal of Self-care Agency Scale (ASAS) is a worldwide known instrument aimed at assessing the ability to engage in self-care. However, it has never been tested in the Spanish context before, and much less in nursing practitioners or apprentices. The aim of this study was to translate, adapt and validate the ASAS for Spanish nursing apprentices, assessing its dimensionality, psychometric properties and convergent validity by means of the Sense of Coherence (SOC-13) questionnaire.
Data were collected from a random sample of 921 Certificated Nursing Assistant (CNA) Spanish students and was analyzed trough confirmatory factor analyses via structural equation models. The core ASAS construct and its subscales were correlated with the SOC-13 scores.
Fair psychometric properties for the questionnaire were set. Also, SEM models endorse the validity and reliability of the four-factor dimensionality of the Spanish adaptation of the ASAS, whose associations to SOC scores were coherent and significant.
This study allowed to establish that the Spanish version of the ASAS might be a useful tool for addressing self-care-related issues among nursing apprentices, a key population for promoting both their own and patients' health and welfare through healthy and care-related behaviors.
护理专业人员劳动的核心含义是促进医疗服务使用者的自我护理和促进福祉。治疗过程的开始是从提供者开始的，需要自我保健习惯才能在不同领域对患者的护理结果产生积极影响。总的来说，目前的文献支持这样一种观点，即护士的个人自我保健应该是其专业角色中期望的必要技能。在这方面，自我护理能力评估量表（ASAS）是一种全球公认的工具，旨在评估从事自我护理的能力。然而，它以前从未在西班牙背景下进行过测试，更不用说在护理从业者或学徒中进行测试了。本研究的目的是翻译、改编和验证适用于西班牙护理学徒的 ASAS，通过使用心理幸福感问卷（SOC-13）评估其维度、心理测量特性和收敛效度。
从随机抽取的 921 名认证护理助理（CNA）西班牙学生中收集数据，并通过结构方程模型进行验证性因素分析进行分析。ASAS 的核心结构和子量表与 SOC-13 评分相关。
确定了该问卷的良好心理测量特性。此外，SEM 模型支持 ASAS 西班牙文译本的四因素维度的有效性和可靠性，其与 SOC 分数的关联是一致且显著的。
本研究表明，ASAS 的西班牙语版本可能是解决护理学徒自我保健相关问题的有用工具，护理学徒是通过健康和护理相关行为促进自身和患者健康和福利的关键人群。
