Psychometric Testing of the Newborn Skin Assessment Attitude Scale in Neonatal ICU Nurses

Zerrin Çiğdem | Tülay Ortabağ

OBJECTIVE: To develop a Newborn Skin Assessment Attitude Scale (NSAAS) for neonatal ICU (NICU) RNs.METHODS: The study was conducted with 326 nurses working in NICUs in three cities in Turkey. The researchers evaluated the content and construct validity and reliability of the scale with item-total score correlation analysis, the test-retest method, and calculating the Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient.RESULTS: The content validity index of the scale ranged between 0.87 and 1.00. Prior to exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin coefficient of the ...Daha fazlası