Content validation of hopelessness in Slovakia and Czech Republic.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to validate the content of nursing diagnosis hopelessness in Slovak and Czech social and cultural contexts.


METHODS
The Fehring's Diagnostic Content Validity Model was used to measure the importance of diagnostic characteristics of hopelessness.


RESULTS
Only three NANDA characteristics and five Nowotny Hope Scale characteristics have reached the value of weighted average of the scores for defining characteristics.


CONCLUSIONS
NANDA characteristics are concerned with the affective-behavioral dimension of hopelessness. Nowotny Hope Scale characteristics that reached high importance in our study are concerned with its cognitive-temporal dimension.


CONCLUSIONS
The defining characteristics of hopelessness identified in our study could be tested in the development of instrument to measure hope in clinical practice.
Comenius University in Bratislava, Jesseniuss Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Institute of Nursing, in Martin, Slovakia.
Elena
E
Gurková
Katarína
K
Ziaková
Juraj
J
Cáp
D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing*; D018153:Czech Republic; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D009013:Morale; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018154:Slovakia