Development and psychometric testing of a questionnaire to assess Nurse's perception of risks during enteral nutrition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Enteral nutrition (EN) therapy is widely used in clinical practice to provide artificial nutrition to patients, while the incidence of adverse events are relatively highly. In the clinical setting, the occurrence of adverse events is associated with the nurse's risk perception. Thus, using tool to evaluate nurse's risk perception of enteral nutrition is necessary.

Methods

The draft questionnaire with 37-items was formed by comprehensive literature reviews and semi-structured in-depth interviews with 11 nurses. Two iterations of expert consultations were used to evaluate the content validity, and 4 items were deleted in this phrase. A 33-items questionnaire was used to survey 352 nurses from five tertiary hospitals in China from May to July 2019 with convenience sa

SUBMITTER: Feng P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7783971 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature