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Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses.
| Title: | Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses. |
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| Authors: | Cesar Ivan Aviles Gonzalez, Maura Galletta, Paola Melis, Paolo Contu, Jean Watson, Gabriele Finco, Maria Francisca Jimenez Herrera |
| Source: | PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 5, p e0217106 (2019) |
| Publisher Information: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019. |
| Publication Year: | 2019 |
| Collection: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| Subject Terms: | Medicine, Science |
| More Details: | Caring is the essence of nursing practice. Caring Efficacy scale was developed with the purpose of measuring nurses' perceived self-efficacy in orienting and maintaining caring relationships with patients. Since any instruments measuring caring self-efficacy have not been developed in Italy, the study aimed at culturally adapting and validating Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses. A total of 300 registered nurses were asked to fill a self-reported questionnaire; translation-back-translation procedure was carried out to maintain semantic, idiomatic and conceptual equivalence of the original scale. Then, factor analysis was performed in order to test appropriateness of the factor structure. Convergent and discriminant validity was also tested. A two-factor structure with 17 items was found. Results show that Cronbach's Alpha value was 0.84 for Confidence to Care, and 0.75 for Doubts and Concerns. Correlation analysis for convergent and discriminant validity showed that Confidence to Care was positively correlated with sense of coherence and no significant correlation with Doubts and Concerns was found. Caring efficacy scale can be used by nurse managers as a way of assessing nurses' self-efficacy and their caring orientation, thus improving quality of patient care. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0217106 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/84c2835e7cfe4583b199f576bbc62ddb |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.84c2835e7cfe4583b199f576bbc62ddb |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| ISSN: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0217106 |
| Published in: | PLoS ONE |
| Language: | English |