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Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses.

ABSTRACT: Caring is the essence of nursing practice. Caring Efficacy scale was developed with the purpose of measuring nurses' perceived self-efficacy in orienting and maintaining caring relationships with patients. Since any instruments measuring caring self-efficacy have not been developed in Italy, the study aimed at culturally adapting and validating Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses. A total of 300 registered nurses were asked to fill a self-reported questionnaire; translation-back-translation procedure was carried out to maintain semantic, idiomatic and conceptual equivalence of the original scale. Then, factor analysis was performed in order to test appropriateness of the factor structure. Convergent and discriminant validity was also tested. A two-factor structure with 17 items was found. Results show that Cronbach's Alpha value was 0.84 for Confidence to Care, and 0.75 for Doubts and Concerns. Correlation analysis for convergent and discriminant validity showed that Confidence to Care was positively correlated with sense of coherence and no significant correlation with Doubts and Concerns was found. Caring efficacy scale can be used by nurse managers as a way of assessing nurses' self-efficacy and their caring orientation, thus improving quality of patient care.

SUBMITTER: Aviles Gonzalez CI

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6532878 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses.

Aviles Gonzalez Cesar Ivan CI Galletta Maura M Melis Paola P Contu Paolo P Watson Jean J Finco Gabriele G Jimenez Herrera Maria Francisca MF

PloS one 20190523 5

Caring is the essence of nursing practice. Caring Efficacy scale was developed with the purpose of measuring nurses' perceived self-efficacy in orienting and maintaining caring relationships with patients. Since any instruments measuring caring self-efficacy have not been developed in Italy, the study aimed at culturally adapting and validating Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses. A total of 300 registered nurses were asked to fill a self-reported questionnaire; translation-back- ...[more]

PMID: 31120938

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