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Adaptation and validation of the instrument positions on the nursing process
Erika de Souza Guedes1, Regina Marcia Cardoso de Sousa, Ruth Natalia Teresa Turrini
1Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. guedes_erika@hotmail.com
Objective:
estimate the psychometric properties in the adaptation of the instrument Positions on Nursing Diagnosis to assess nursing staff members' attitudes towards the nursing process.
Method:
methodological study with a non-probabilistic sample of 973 nursing assistants and 632 baccalaureate nurses from 35 hospitals and outpatient clinics affiliated with the São Paulo State Health Secretary. The validity of the 20-items instrument was checked through confirmatory factor analysis, which identified a more generally secondary-level factor, constituted by the three classical attitude factors. Reliability corresponded to 0.954 for the total instrument.
Results:
the validity and reliability of the instrument Posições sobre o Processo de Enfermagem are appropriate .
Conclusions:
further research is needed to verify whether the items behave differently according to the respondent's professional category and to verify the instrument's behavior when applied to student samples.
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