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[Validation of a Spanish version of the Decisional Conflict scale]
Mila Urrutia1, Solange Campos, Annette O'Connor
1Escuela de Enfermería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. murrutia@uc.cl
Background:
In Chile, in approximately 50% of nursing students, nursing was not their first choice as career. Usually, during the first year, these students must decide whether they would like to continue in the same career. A valid tool is needed to identify decisional conflicts and their contributing factors among these students and to develop an appropriate strategy to support them during their decision-making process.
Aim:
To translate into Spanish and validate the Generic Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS).
Material And Methods:
The DCS was translated from English to Spanish and was used with 331 first-year nursing students at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The scale was assessed for validity and reliability using statistical tests, including factor analysis and Cronbach alpha test.
Results:
The Spanish version of the DCS had acceptable validity and reliability. Factorial analysis identified four factors and only the item: "advice" loaded the other factors. Cronbach alpha was 0.80.
Conclusions:
DCS is a valid and useful instrument to identify decisional conflicts and contributing factors to continue studies among nursing students.
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