Psychometric evaluation of good nursing care scale in coronary care unit's patients

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Fatemeh Bahrami, Shirin Hasanvand, Fateme Goudarzi, Farzad Ebrahimzadeh, Helena Leino-Kilpi

This paper describe translate and psychometric evaluation of Persian version of Good Nursing Care Scale (GNCS) for patients (GNCS-P). In this methodological study, scale was translated. Then, face and content validity of the Persian version of GNCS-P were assessed. To assess construct validity, the scale was completed by 200 coronary care unit's patients. Reliability was assessed through test-retest and internal consistency method. Data were analyzed in AMOS-21 and SPSS-21 software programs. Scale-Content Validity Index (S-CVI) was calculated as 0.91. Cronbach's alpha coefficients were determined 0.95 for the scale, and between 0.79 and 0.92 for its dimensions. The results of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the validity of the scale and its dimensions. Therefore, the Persian version of GNCS-P has favorable validity and reliability, and can be used in assessing the quality of nursing care in the Iranian cardiac patients.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.13130.2327
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