Psychometric testing of the newborn skin assessment attitude scale in neonatal ıcu nurses

Abstract

OBJECTIVE To develop a Newborn Skin Assessment Attitude Scale (NSAAS) for neonatal ICU (NICU) RNs. METHODS The study was conducted with 326 nurses working in NICUs in three cities in Turkey. The researchers evaluated the content and construct validity and reliability of the scale with item-Total score correlation analysis, the test-retest method, and calculating the Cronbach α reliability coefficient. RESULTS The content validity index of the scale ranged between 0.87 and 1.00. Prior to exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin coefficient of the NSAAS was 0.976, and the Bartlett test of sphericity result was χ2 = 15,337.052 (P [removed].05). CONCLUSIONS The NSAAS can be reliably used for measuring NICU nurses' attitudes toward newborn skin assessment. © Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.