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Nihan Türkoğlu1, Esin Kavuran2, Eda Ay3
1Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Nursing, Nursing Faculty, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
Background:
Intercultural communication is one of the most important competencies of nurses that enhances the health-care process and increases the quality of care in multicultural environments.
Aims:
This study was conducted to revise the Turkish Personal Report of Intercultural Communication Apprehension Scale.
Methods:
This methodological study was conducted between November and December 2021 with 321 female and 96 male university students (mean age 20.78 ± 2.04 (min. = 17, max. = 37)). Revision of the Turkish Personal Report of Intercultural Communication Apprehension Scale included factor analysis, test-retest analysis for reliability, correlation-based item analysis, Cronbach's alpha internal consistency analysis and confirmatory factor analysis.
Results:
Analysis results showed that the scale was composed of 12 items and explained 56.79% of the total variance. Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.88. Internal consistency analysis included item-total score correlations; the values were found to range between -0.59 and 0.79 and the 14th item with negative item-total score correlations was excluded from the scale.
Conclusion:
The results of this study show that the revised Turkish Personal Report of Intercultural Communication Apprehension Scale is a valid and reliable tool.
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