title: Development and testing of the Urinary Incontinence Scales.
abstract: The Urinary Incontinence Scales were developed to measure RNs' attitude, belief, practice, and knowledge about urinary incontinence in adults. The purpose of this article is to introduce the scales and discuss their development and testing. These scales include the Urinary Incontinence Attitude Scale, the Urinary Incontinence Belief Scale, the Urinary Incontinence Practice Scale, and the Urinary Incontinence Knowledge Scale. Evaluation using confirmatory factor analysis showed the attitude, belief, and practice scales to be reliable and valid. Reliability of the knowledge scale was slightly lower than desired using both Cronbach's alpha coefficient and squared multiple correlation. While the hypothesized measurement model demonstrated acceptable goodness-of-fit, further testing is needed for generalizability of findings.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing and Center for Research on Women's Health, Texas Women's University, Denton, USA.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kashka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000451:nursing*