title: [Transcultural validation of a measurement scale].
abstract: This monography presents the validation study results of a new scale to measure family needs: The Family Needs Inventory (IBF) (Chartier and Coutu-Wakulczyk, 1988). The scale is available in both French and English from the Departement des sciences infirmières of the Université de Sherbrooke. Based on a perceptual framework, the IBF is a self-report scale composed of 33 items. It offers three different subscores of the importance of needs: the global score of needs, the intensity need index and the total number of needs. The IBF was validated on a sample of 400 subjects. These subjects were drawn from the adult population of immediate family members visiting a patient in surgical or medical intensive care units in three different geographical regions, in Québec, northeast Ontario and France. The reliability yielded a 0.90 Cronback Alpha coefficient and the homogeneity coefficient for Spearman-Brown and Guttman procedures were 0.88 respectively. The principal component factor analysis and factorial matrices lead to examine the conceptual structure of five independent factors.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chartier
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coutu-Wakulczyk
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rukholm
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bailey
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005602:France; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D009864:Ontario; D011792:Quebec; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*
vernacular_title: Validation transculturelle d'un outil de mesure.