title: [Initial validation of a new scale for needs: the inventory of family needs].
abstract: This article presents the initial validation study results of a new scale to measure family needs: l'Inventaire des besoins des familles (IBF) (Chartier & Coutu-Wakulczyk, 1988). The scale is available in both French and English. Based on the perceptual theory, the IBF is a self-report scale composed of 33 items. It also offers three (3) different sub-scores of the importance of needs: the Global Score of Needs (GSN), the Intensity Need Index (INN) and the Total Number of Needs (TNN). The IBF was first validated on a sample of 207 subjects drawn from the adult population of immediate family members visiting a patient in a surgical intensive care unit in the CHUS in Sherbrooke. The reliability yielded a 0.91 Cronback Alpha coefficient and the homogeneity coefficient for Spearman-Brown and Guttman procedures were 0.89 and 0.86 respectively. The principal component factor analysis and factorial matrices lead to examine the conceptual structure of five independent factors.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coutu-Wakulczyk
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chartier
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*
vernacular_title: Validation initiale d'une nouvelle echelle de besoins: l'inventaire des besoins des familles (IBF).