Adaptation of the Person-Centered Perioperative Nursing Scale to Turkish: A Validity and Reliability Analysis

This study aims to perform a detailed analysis of the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Person-Centered Perioperative Nursing Scale (PCPON).

Methodological and descriptive study.

This study was conducted online between December 2020 and February 2021, with 240 nurses working in the surgical wards of private hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey. Individual Characteristics Questionnaire and PCPON were used to collect data. Cronbach Alpha reliability analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were applied using R Project software to the data.

As a result of the analysis, all corrected item correlation values for compassionate interaction, respect, comfort, sharing information, and expertise were found to be positive following the original factors structure of the scale. According to reliability analysis statistics, Cronbach's Alpha coefficients were calculated as 0.781, 0.758, 0.780, 0.750 and 0.808 for compassionate interaction, respect, comfort, sharing information, and expertise sub-dimensions, respectively. According to these findings, all five sub-dimensions had high reliability levels. As a result of CFA, the items in all sub-dimensions were statistically significant. Standardized factor loads were also positive in the five sub-dimensions of the scale. Based on these results, all PCPON items were under appropriate sub-dimensions.

PCPON as adapted from English to Turkish had high levels of validity and reliability. It was concluded to be a valid and reliable scale, which we believe will be useful for our country in the fields of education, practice, and research to evaluate the attitudes and behaviors of surgical nurses towards the care-oriented nurse-patient relationship.