Translation of Mindful Self-care Scale and its reliability and validity in ICU nurses
Objective To translate the English version of the Mindful Self-care Scale into Chinese and test its validity and reliability in ICU nurses.Methods The English version of the Mindful Self-care Scale was translated into Chinese through translation,back translation,cross-cultural adaptation,expert letter consultation and pre-survey.A total of 540 ICU nurses from three tertiary grade-A hospitals in Changsha,Hunan Province were selected by convenience sampling from August 2021 to March 2022 to analyze the reliability and validity of the Chinese scale.ResuIts The Chinese version of the Mindful Self-care Scale contained 6 dimensions and 32 entries.The content validity index of the scale level was 0.906,and the content validity index of the item level was 0.700~1.000.Six common factors were extracted by exploratory factor analysis,and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 64.846%.Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fit well.The Cronbach's α coefficient of the total scale was 0.921,with a retest reliability of 0.962,and split-half reliability of 0.784.Conclusion The Chinese version of the Mindful Self-care Scale has good reliability and validity,and can be used as an assessment tool for the mindfulness self-care ability of ICU nurses in China.