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Using Learning Outcome Measures to assess Doctoral Nursing Education
Published on: June 21, 2010
Developing an assessment tool for geropsychiatric mental healthcare knowledge and attitude evaluations in clinical
Chia-Shan Wu1, Mei-Fang Chen1, Jiin-Ru Rong2
1Department of Nursing, National Tainan Junior College of Nursing, Tainan City, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Aim:
To develop an instrument to investigate geropsychiatric psychological symptoms, health problem nursing knowledge (GPN-K), geropsychiatric psychological symptoms and health problem nursing attitude scale (GPN-A) in clinical practice for nursing students.
Design:
Instrument development and cross-sectional study for psychometric testing.
Methods:
Construct validity was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach's α.
Results:
A total of 300 students have completed the questionnaires (85.71% response rate). The CFA of GPN-K showed good fitness and validity. The Kuder-Richardson 20 (KR-20) value of the internal consistency reliability is 0.64. The GPN-A overall content validity index is 0.95. A three-factor structure was shown by exploratory factor analysis. The three factors are communication and care, helping others improve and problem evaluation tendency. The total variance explained is 59.01%. Cronbach's alpha of GPN-A equals 0.84, which represents good internal consistency.
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