title: Reliability and validity of a Turkish language version of the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to evaluate content and construct validity of a Turkish language version of the Bates Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT) as well as its internal consistency and interrater reliability.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was conducted in 13 intensive care units that included patients with pressure ulcers; the units were located in a university hospital in Central Anatolia, Turkey. The sample comprised 70 nurses and 20 patients who have stage II, III, and IV pressure ulcers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected between January and April 2011. Content validity was measured using the Davis Technique. The BWAT was scored by 2 groups, nurses with expertise in wound care and staff nurses. An expert nurse and a ward nurse conducted pressure ulcer evaluation on the same patient consecutively in order to determine interrater reliability. We also measured internal consistency via the Cronbach α.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The content validity agreement rate was 0.82. The interrater reliability of the instrument was 0.82; its internal consistency calculated via the Cronbach α was 0.85.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of this study support the Turkish language version of the BWAT as possessing content validity, interrater reliability and internal consistency.
authors.affiliation: Azize Karahan, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Health Services Nursing Department, Baskent University Health Sciences Faculty, Ankara, Turkey. Ebru Kilicarslan Toruner, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Nursing Department, Gazi University Health Sciences Faculty, Ankara, Turkey. Aysun Ceylan, RN, Head Nurse of Urology Unit, Baskent University Ankara Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. Aysel Abbasoglu, MSN, RN, Lecturer, Nursing Department, Baskent University Health Sciences Faculty, Ankara, Turkey. Agah Tekindal, Medical Specialist, Department of Biostatistics, Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. Lale Buyukgonenc, PhD, RN, Professor, Department of Nursing, Hitit University School of Health, Corum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Azize
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karahan
authors.forename: Ebru Kilicarslan
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Toruner
authors.forename: Aysun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ceylan
authors.forename: Aysel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abbasoglu
authors.forename: Agah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tekindal
authors.forename: Lale
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Buyukgonenc
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014175:Translating; D014421:Turkey