Development of questionnaire of attitude of pediatric nurses toward transitional nursing of children with chronic diseases and its reliability and validity
Objective To develop a questionnaire of attitude of pediatric nurses to transitional nursing of children with chronic diseases and to test its reliability and validity.Methods Guided by attitude theory,after literature review,expert consultation and pilot survey,the initial questionnaire was developed.A total of 299 pediatric nurses in a tertiary grade-A hospital in Wuhan from October 2022 to November 2022 were conveniently sampled and investigated.SPSS and AMOS were used for factor analysis and reliability and validity test respectively.Results The final version of the questionnaire consisted of 29 items in 3 dimensions of cognition,affect and behavior tendency.Cronbach's α coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.973 and split-half reliability 0.971.Content validity index of the scale was 0.984,and that of the items ranged from 0.875 to 1.000.Exploratory factor analysis extracted 3 common factors,and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 89.472%.Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fit well(χ2/df=2.845,χ2=1063.937,df=374,P<0.001,RMSEA=0.077),indicating stable factor structure of the questionnaire.Conclusion The Questionnaire of Attitude of Pediatric Nurses to Transitional Nursing of Children with Chronic Diseases in this study has good reliability and validity,and it can be used as a tool to access the attitude of pediatric nurses toward transitional nursing of children with chronic diseases,and to provide reference for transitional nursing of children with chronic diseases.
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