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Hangxia Ma1, Maosen Hu1, Jingjing Wan2,3
1Xiangya College of Nursing, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Aims:
To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Kidney Transplant Understanding Tool (K-TUT) among patients in China.
Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Methods:
A convenience sample of 171 kidney transplant (KT) candidates and 272 KT recipients was recruited from two tertiary and Grade A hospitals in Hunan Province, China. The reliability was calculated by half-fold reliability, test-retest reliability and Cronbach's alpha. The validity was analysed by the content validity index.
Results:
For KT candidates, the Chinese version of K-TUT deleted items 4, 6, 7 and 8, Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.778, half-fold reliability values were 0.792, and test-retest reliability values were 0.902. For KT recipients, the tool deleted items 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8, Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.769, half-fold coefficient values were 0.701, and retest coefficient values were 0.888. The content validity index was 0.967.
Conclusions:
The K-TUT is an acceptable and reliable measurement for evaluating the relevant knowledge of KT recipients and candidates.
Impact:
It is anticipated that this new tool will help the nursing staff to identify specific areas of deficiency that could be targeted in health education to improve the KT knowledge of patients.
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