Development and psychometric evaluation of nurse's intention to care for patients with infectious disease scale: an exploratory sequential mixed method study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Nurses who care for patients with infectious disease may experince significant stress and negative psychological reactions. The intention of nurses to care is a complex and multifaceted concept that is influenced by a range of factors. Therefore, this study was conducted to explain the concept of nurses' intention to care for patients with infectious disease and then develop a reliable and valid scale to measure this concept accurately in Iranian nurses.

Design

This study is a cross-sectional study with a sequential-exploratory mixed-method approach from May 2022 to July 2023. The concept of nurses' intent to care for patients with infectious disease was explain using deductive content analysis, and item pools were generated. In the sconed step the samples were 455 nurs

SUBMITTER: Hoseinzadeh E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10807223 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature