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Susan Bejciy-Spring1, Brenda Vermillion, Sally Morgan
1The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Background And Purpose:
Nurses' attitudes play an important role in the consistent practice of safe patient handling behaviors. The purposes of this study were to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a newly developed instrument measuring attitudes of nurses related to the care and safe handling of patients who are obese.
Methods:
Phases of instrument development included (a) item generation, (b) content validity assessment, (c) reliability assessment, (d) cognitive interviewing, and (e) construct validity assessment through factor analysis.
Results:
The final data from the exploratory factor analysis produced a 26-item multidimensional instrument that contains 9 subscales.
Conclusions:
Based on the factor analysis, a 26-item instrument can be used to examine nurses' attitudes regarding patients who are morbidly obese and related safe handling practices.
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