Development of the Nurse Attitude Scale short form: factor analysis in a large sample of Japanese psychiatric clinical staff.
The Nurse Attitude Scale (NAS) measures nurses' Expressed Emotion. A short form of the NAS was developed and its reliability and validity examined. After performing factor analysis using 1252 samples, three factors were extracted. Cronbach's alpha for individual subscales was 0.852 for Hostility, 0.846 for Criticism and 0.645 for Positive Remarks. There was a significant correlation between individual subscales in the NAS short form and corresponding subscale in the Maslach Burnout Inventory (P < 0.001). The NAS short form seems to have acceptable reliability and validity.
Katsuki
Fujika
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School of Nursing, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. katsuki@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp
Fukui
Satoe
S
Niekawa
Nobuyuki
N
Oshima
Iwao
I
Setoya
Nozomi
N
Ninomiya
Shiori
S
Moriyama
Akiko
A
Uchino
Toshiro
T
Ito
Junichiro
J
Tsukada
Kazumi
K
D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results