Developing a new questionnaire to measure nurse caring behaviours: a mixed method study
| Autor: | Luisa Saiani, Elisa Ambrosi, Stefano Tardivo, Alessandra Zenere, Elisabetta Zanolin, Luigina Mortari, Federica Canzan, Mario Grassi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Caring behaviour patient experience questionnaire development Focus group moral imperative clinical relationship Paternalism Likert scale Nursing nursing Rating scale Scale (social sciences) Caring behaviour caring perception clinical relationship dual scaling measurement moral imperative nursing patient experience person-centered healthcare preference data questionnaire development Patient experience preference data caring perception dual scaling person-centered healthcare measurement Empirical evidence Psychology |
| Popis: | Rationale, aims and objective: Measuring nurse caring may provide empirical evidence to assist clinicians and administrators in making decisions. The aim of the present study was to develop a new scale, called the CARE-Italy, grounded in the Italian culture, for measuring nurses’ caring behaviours.Methods: A mixed method approach was applied in developing the instrument. The item generation and scale development were performed through a qualitative phenomenological approach and a focus group with a panel of experts. The provisional instrument was then administered to a convenience sample of 439 nurses and then questionnaire scaling and association analysis were performed. A dual scaling analysis of successive categories was performed to identify preferences on the rating scale. An item selection based on item-scale correlations and item weights was performed. Subjects’ mean scores were computed and standardized in a 100-point scale.Results: The 20 caring behaviours perceived by nurses to be the most important ones constitute the final version of the CARE-Italy questionnaire. They concern patients’ surveillance, professional relationships with patients, satisfying patients’ and family members’ practical and psychological needs, team consultation and nurses’ emotions.Conclusions: A relational and paternalistic caring approach by Italian nurses seems to be suggested. The next step of the research project will be the validation process of the CARE-Italy questionnaire with a Likert scale measuring the occurrence of the 20 caring behaviours in daily practice. |
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