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Development of nurses' knowledge questionnaire of chest tube maintenance and management
Xiaoyun Ding1, Yunzhi Shen1, Huahua Liu1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Huashan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Objective:
The lack of chest tube maintenance and management knowledge in nurses can lead to serious adverse consequences. The purpose of this study was to develop a chest tube maintenance and management knowledge questionnaire for clinical nurses, and to verify its reliability and validity.
Methods:
Based on literature review and expert consultation, a questionnaire on chest tube maintenance and management knowledge of clinical nurses was designed, and the reliability and validity of the questionnaire were tested in 60 clinical nurses.
Results:
The initial questionnaire of chest tube maintenance and management knowledge for clinical nurses included 20 items, and three dimensions were finally determined by expert consultation method, including 15 items. The Cronbach's α coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.850, and the Cronbach's α coefficient of each dimension ranged from 0.704 to 0.743. Spearman-brown's split reliability was 0.756. The content validity (content validity index [CVI]) of each item of the questionnaire ranged from 0.833 to 1.000, and the total CVI was 0.978.
Conclusions:
The clinical nurses' knowledge questionnaire developed in this study has good reliability and validity, which can effectively and objectively evaluate clinical nurses' mastery of chest tube maintenance and management knowledge.
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