Psychometrics of the moral distress scale in Iranian mental health nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the challenges that nurses often face in ethical decision-making situations is moral distress. Moral distress is caused by the conflict between professional and individual values in decision-making situations. Despite its importance, there is no reliable scale in Persian to measure it. Therefore, this study was conducted to validate the moral distress scale in mental health nurses in Iranian culture and Persian language.

Methods

This study was conducted in two parts: Translation and cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric analysis. The translation and cross-cultural adaptation process was conducted based on the Polit approach. Next, face validity (qualitative), content validity (quantitative and qualitative), and construct validity were examined. This pa

SUBMITTER: Ghafouri R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8431900 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature