Development and validation of the nurses' touch comfort evaluation scale in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Touch comfort refers to the level of comfort nurses feel internally when touching patients. Good touch comfort indicates that nurses feel very comfortable during such interactions. With the steady advancement of the "Healthy China" initiative, there is an increasing demand for humanistic care. Good touch comfort is a critical prerequisite for nurses to complete humanistic care measures efficiently. However, there is currently a lack of effective localized measurement tools to evaluate the touch comfort for Chinese nurses. This study aimed to develop a nurses' touch comfort evaluation scale suitable for Chinese nursing culture and to test its psychometric properties.

Methods

The nurses' touch comfort evaluation scale was developed in three stages. In stage 1, a lit

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11827364 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature