title: Evaluating hospital postnatal nursing care: development of the instruments.
abstract: Measures of the quality of hospital postnatal nursing care were developed for an evaluative study of the benefits of combined mother-infant versus traditional separate staffing patterns. Two hundred mothers completed instruments designed to measure maternal competence, patient satisfaction, establishment of breast-feeding in hospital and breast-feeding success at 6 weeks, and 28 nursing staff completed measures of staff satisfaction. The internal consistency and test-retest reliability of scales were supported by alpha coefficients of .60 to .89 and correlation coefficients of .74 to .80. A 90% participation rate and a 97% completion rate were achieved for the maternal sample. Evidence is presented for instrument content, construct, and predictive validity.
authors: University of Ottawa, Canada.
authors: N E
authors: NE
authors: Watters
authors: C M
authors: CM
authors: Kristiansen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology; D011181:Postnatal Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care