Development and testing of the shared decision-making attitudes scale among nurses in Taiwan: a cross-sectional scale development study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Shared decision-making (SDM) enhances medical care, but an appropriate tool for evaluating nursing staff's attitudes towards SDM in clinical practice is lacking. The objective of this study is to develop the Nursing Shared Decision-Making Attitude (NSDMA) scale and verify its psychometric properties.

Design

Instrument design study.

Participants

A sample of 451 nursing staff.

Intervention

This study comprised two phases. In phase 1, qualitative research and expert content validity were adopted to develop the first draft of the scale. In phase 2, Taiwanese nursing staff were recruited through convenience sampling, and the sample was divided into a calibration sample and a validation sample. An objective structured clinical examination of SDM attitudes w

SUBMITTER: Hsu HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442060 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature