title: The psychometric testing of the Nursing Teamwork Survey in Iceland.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Nursing Teamwork Survey-Icelandic (NTS-Icelandic), which was translated from US English to Icelandic. The Nursing Teamwork Survey, with 33 items, measures overall teamwork and five factors of teamwork: trust, team orientation, backup, shared mental models, and team leadership. The psychometric testing of the NTS-Icelandic was carried out on data from a pilot study and a national study. The sample for a pilot study included 123 nursing staff from five units, and the sample for a national study included 925 nursing staff from 27 inpatient units. The overall test-retest intraclass correlation coefficient in the pilot study was 0.693 (lower bound = 0.498, upper bound = 0.821) (p < 0.001). The Cronbach's alpha reliability for the total scale and subscales ranged from 0.737 to 0.911. A confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit of the data from the national study with the five-factor model for nursing teamwork. The NTS-Icelandic tested valid and reliable in this study. Study findings support further use of the Nursing Teamwork Survey internationally.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.|Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
authors.forename: Helga
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bragadóttir
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Beatrice J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Kalisch
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
authors.forename: Sigríður Bríet
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Smáradóttir
authors.affiliation: The Social Science Research Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
authors.forename: Heiður Hrund
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Jónsdóttir
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007055:Iceland; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009740:Nursing Staff; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: hospitals; nursing; reliability; teamwork; validity