[Validity and reliability of an instrument for predictive nursing intention for SARS patient care].
OBJECTIVE
This study was done to develop and test validity and reliability of on instrument for predicting nursing intention for SARS patient care.


METHODS
The psychometric properties of a SARS patient care attrition prediction tool, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, were examined in this study. The Three-phase design involved a) salient beliefs generated from clinical nurses (n=43) b) content validation by expert panel evaluations(n=5) c) face validation by plot testing (n=10) d) and instrument validation in a cross sectional survey (n=299). Psychometric analysis of survey data provided empirical evidence of the construct validity and reliability of the instrument.


RESULTS
Principal component analysis verified the hypothesized 6-factor solution, explaining 68.2% of variance, and Alpha coefficients of .7538 to .9389 indicated a high internal consistency of the instrument.


CONCLUSIONS
The instrument can be used by nurse administrators and researcher to assess clinical nurses' salient beliefs about caring for SARS patients, guide tailored intervention strategies to effective caring, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.
Yoo
Hye Ra
HR
Department of Nursing, School of Medicine, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea. hryoo@ajou.ac.kr
Kwon
Bo Eun
BE
Jang
Yon Soo
YS
Youn
Heun Keung
HK
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009732:Nursing Care; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000451:nursing*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires