Development and testing of the Urinary Incontinence Scales

The Urinary Incontinence Scales were developed to measure RNs' attitude, belief, practice, and knowledge about urinary incontinence in adults. The purpose of this article is to introduce the scales and discuss their development and testing. These scales include the Urinary Incontinence Attitude Scale, the Urinary Incontinence Belief Scale, the Urinary Incontinence Practice Scale, and the Urinary Incontinence Knowledge Scale. Evaluation using confirmatory factor analysis showed the attitude, belief, and practice scales to be reliable and valid. Reliability of the knowledge scale was slightly lower than desired using both Cronbach's alpha coefficient and squared multiple correlation. While the hypothesized measurement model demonstrated acceptable goodness-of-fit, further testing is needed for generalizability of findings.