title: [Psychometric properties of an instrument to evaluate the nurse attitude towards good practice guides].
abstract: The Guides of Good Practices (GGP) are necessary tools in the universal healthcare and in the clinical management, providing the user/patient with a major quality in the assistance, in order to optimize and reinforce an individualized attention into action, taking into account the best scientific evidence. The literature provides different references to the development of the GGP, but there is little knowledge about the attitude of professionals towards them, since most of the studies that exist are qualitative. Therefore, the aim of this work is to construct and validate a Likert scale which could assess the attitude of the nurse towards GGP. The methodology used was quantitative, descriptive, cross, opinion, anonymous and also it could validate a scale via the following measurements: content validation by experts, correlation between items, external reliability, internal consistency, stability and exploratory factor analysis. The result was a scale consisting of 20 items that refer to the attitude toward the GGP, with a percentage of agreement among experts over 75 % on all the items, and a significant Pearson correlation between the pre-test and post-test in all variables, but for three. The internal consistency measured by Cronbach's alpha was 0.878. These results are acceptable in terms of the psychometric characteristics of the instrument, with easy and fast administration and simple in their interpretation, allowing quantifying and generating knowledge about the attitudes of nurses towards GGP.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López-Díaz
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fraille-Calle
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Herrero-Rosado
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Arnés-Muñoz
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: De-Dios-De-Dios
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011594:Psychometrics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires