title: Families' Importance in Nursing Care: Nurses' Attitudes--an instrument development.
abstract: This article describes the development and testing of a research instrument, Families' Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA), designed to measure nurses' attitudes about the importance of involving families in nursing care. The instrument was inductively developed from a literature review and tested with a sample of Swedish nurses. An item-total correlation and a first principal component analysis were used to validate the final instrument, including a second principal component analysis to analyze dimensionality, and Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate internal consistency. The instrument consists of 26 items and reveals four factors: families as a resource in nursing care, family as a conversational partner, family as a burden, and family as its own resource. Cronbach's alpha was 0.88 for the total instrument and 0.69 to 0.80 for the subscales. The instrument requires further testing with other nurse populations.
authors.affiliation: School of Human Sciences, Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden. eva.benzein@hik.se
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Benzein
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Johansson
authors.forename: Kristofer Franzén
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Arestedt
authors.forename: Agneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.forename: Britt-Inger
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Saveman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D022143:Family Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D013548:Sweden