Development and reliability and validity test of nursing cost management knowledge,attitude and practice questionnaire for clinical nurses in grade A tertiary hospitals
Objective To develop a nursing cost management knowledge,attitude and practice questionnaire for clinical nurses in grade A tertiary hospitals,and to test its reliability and validity.Methods Guided by the theory of knowledge,attitude and practice,the first draft of the questionnaire was formed by reviewing the literature,original articles,Delphi expert consultation and pre-survey.The convenience sampling method was used to select 316 clinical nurses from a grade A tertiary hospital in Dalian for pre-survey.The items were screened by the decision value method,the correlation coefficient method,and the exploratory factor analysis.The Cronbach's α coefficient,test-retest reliability,split-half reliability,content validity,and structural validity were used to test the reliability and validity of the questionnaire.Results The nurs-ing cost management knowledge,attitude and practice questionnaire for clinical nurses in grade A tertiary hospitals included 35 items in three dimensions:knowledge,attitude and behavior of nursing cost management.The Cronbach's α coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.954,the re-test reliability was 0.956,the split-half reliability was 0.964,and the content validity was 0.992.Three common factors were extracted by ex-ploratory factor analysis,and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 64.159%.Conclusion The questionnaire of clinical nurses'knowledge,attitude and practice of nursing cost management has good reliability and validity,which is suitable for evaluating the current situa-tion of clinical nurses'knowledge,attitude and practice of nursing cost management in grade A tertiary hospitals.
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