Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the preoperative assessment of readiness tool among surgical patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The evaluation of the surgical readiness of patients plays an important role in clinical care. Preoperative readiness assessment is needed to identify the inadequacy among surgical patients, which provides guide for interventions to improve patients' preoperative readiness. However, there is a paucity of high-level, quality tool that evaluate surgical readiness of patients in China. The purpose of this study is to translate the Preoperative Assessment of Readiness Tool (PART) into Chinese and determine the reliability and validity of the Chinese version in the population of surgical patients.

Methods

Using a standard translation-backward method, the original English version of PART was translated into Chinese. A convenient sampling of 210 surgical patients was rec

SUBMITTER: Bao G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366670 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature