The development and test of reliability and validity on rehabilitation needs assessment scale for hemiplegia patients in stroke nursing clinic
Objective To develop and verify the reliabilitation needs assessment scale for hemiplegia patients in stroke nursing clinic,and provide applicability assessment tools for effectively evaluating the rehabilitation requirements on stoke patients with hemiplegia.Methods The ini-tial scales were formed by using methods including literature analysis,semi-structured interviews,expert inquiries,and preliminary surveys.A formal scale was born from the investigation in 430 stroke hemiplegic patients who were follow-up management in stroke nursing clinics in 3 hospitals of Chongqing.Results The formal scale consisted 5 dimensions and 31 items.Five common factors were extracted in exploratory factor analysis with a cumulative variance contribution rate of 67.735%,content validity index was 0.923,the total Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.960,split-half reliability was 0.940 and the test-retest reliability was 0.953.Conclusion The rehabilitation needs assessment scale shows good reliability and validity,and which can be used for evaluating the rehabilitation requirements of hemiplegic patients in nursing outpatient department of stroke.