Development of an instrument for assessment of Korean nurses' attitudes toward obese patients.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to verify the validity and reliability of an instrument and to identify nurses' attitudes toward obese patients.


METHODS
Basic questions were developed after a preliminary published work review, and content validity was verified by a group of experts. Principle components analysis was applied to the verified questions as a factor analysis, and a confirmatory factor analysis was used to verify whether each question qualified for a specific factor and construct reliability. Average variances were extracted and checked to appraise the reliability of each factor.


RESULTS
The first 74 questions composed with reference to the published work to identify nurses' attitudes toward obese patients were tested for construct validity and modified via factor analysis to 32 questions. Then, the questions were again modified to 29 questions with four factors after a confirmatory factor analysis. Construct reliability and the average variance extracted for the factors were verified to demonstrate that this tool was highly reliable to explain the 29 factors under the four categories.


CONCLUSIONS
These results show nurses' attitudes toward obese patients. Further research using various subject groups and appropriate measures is needed.
College of Nursing Science, East-West Research Institute, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Sang-Sook
SS
Han
College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Jeong-Won
JW
Han
College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Jung-Min
JM
Lee
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000451:nursing*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D056910:Republic of Korea
attitudes; nurse; obesity