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Zahra Tagharrobi1, Leila Ghanbari-Afra2, Khadijeh Sharifi1
1Trauma Nursing Research Centre, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
Abstract:
Background and Purpose: This study was conducted to translate the Nurses' Comfort Questionnaire (NCQ) into Persian and examine its psychometric properties. Methods: In this methodological study, after translation, and face and content validity of the instrument, 300 nurses were randomly selected from the various hospitals in Kashan, during 2022. The construct validity and reliability of the instrument were examined. Results: The extracted five factors in exploratory factor analysis were able to explain 35.7% of the total variance of the questionnaire score. Coefficient α, intraclass correlation coefficient, standard error of measurement, and the smallest measurable change of the psychometric of NCQ (P-NCQ) were calculated as .872, .899, ±4.284, and 5.737, respectively. Conclusions: The P-NCQ has 30 items in five subscales and can be used as a valid and reliable instrument to measure the comfort of nurses.
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