title: The French version of the palliative care quiz for nursing (PCQN-F): development and evaluation.
abstract: This article describes the process and outcomes of translating the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing into French (PCQN-F). A process of decentering, translation/back-translation, and review served to ensure grammatical, structural, and conceptual equivalence with the English version of the quiz. A total of 189 nursing personnel participated in the evaluation. Evaluation involved determining overall responses to the quiz, item to total correlations, reliability, mean score comparisons, and the most frequent misconceptions about palliative care nursing. Our initial review demonstrates the face and content validity of the PCQN-F. Further testing is encouraged to more fully demonstrate its psychometric and educational properties.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Gisèle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: Diane Prud'homme
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Brisson
authors.forename: Margaret M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: Raymonde
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Labbé
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education; D009864:Ontario; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010166:Palliative Care; D011367:Professional Staff Committees; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013727:Terminal Care; D014177:Translations