[Nursing needs assessment scale for women with infertility: development and validation].

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

High-quality nursing care must be provided for women with infertility, and their nursing care needs must be identified. Although scales have been developed to assess infertility-related stress, quality of life, and psychosocial status, there is a lack of scales that assess the nursing care needs of women with infertility. The purpose of this study was to develop a needs assessment scale for nursing care in women with infertility and to verify its reliability and validity.

Methods

The 250 subjects in this study were women with infertility recruited from four hospitals. The scale was developed following the framework of DeVellis, through a literature review, in-depth interviews, development of preliminary items, verification of content validity, development of secondar

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328595 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature