Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses.

ABSTRACT: 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 i

SUBMITTER: Aviles Gonzalez CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6532878 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature