Background and Purpose: This study aimed to adapt the Therapeutic Communication Scale for Nursing Students into Turkish and evaluate its validity, reliability, and intercultural equivalence. Methods: This scale adaptation and psychometric validation study was conducted with 304 nursing students. The adaptation process included forward and backward translation, expert review, and pilot testing. Psychometric properties were examined using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, item analysis, coefficient alpha, and test–retest reliability. Results: Exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure explaining 60.11% of the variance: active listening, empathic communication, and respect for patient autonomy. Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable model fit. Internal consistency was high, and test–retest reliability indicated temporal stability. Conclusions: The Turkish version is a valid and reliable tool for assessing therapeutic communication skills among nursing students.
Background and Purpose: Online assessments are common. However, scarce research compares the accuracy of online assessments to in-person assessments. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability of an online assessment versus an in-person fitness assessment. Methods: Participants (N = 20) were recruited using flyers. They completed an online fitness assessment followed by an in-person fitness assessment 2-10 days later. Reliability was evaluated using intraclass correlation coefficients and Bland-Altman plots. Results: Participants were 30.8 (±20.2) years, mostly female (76.5%), and diverse in race/ethnicity with a body mass index of 23.4 kg/m2 (±3.8). Statistically significant intraclass correlation coefficients were excellent for waist circumference (.93), hip circumference (.94), and push-up test (.94), and good for static squat test (.89) and curl-up test (.76). Conclusion: The online fitness assessment revealed high reliability when compared with an in-person fitness assessment.
Background and Purpose: The Perceived Faculty Support Scale (PFSS) is one of the few instruments designed to assess faculty support. This study aimed to translate the scale into Vietnamese and evaluate its validity and reliability among nursing students. Methods: This cross-sectional study yielded a cross-cultural translation for the PFSS using convenience sampling. The validity of the Vietnamese version of the PFSS (PFSS-V) was assessed through face validity, content validity, construct validity using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), concurrent validity, and known-group validity. Coefficient alpha and an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were used to assess internal consistency and score stability, respectively. Results: The PFSS-V demonstrated good content validity. EFA revealed a one-factor structure explaining 80.04% of the variance, with all items loading strongly. Concurrent validity was evidenced by a significant positive correlation between PFSS-V scores and self-efficacy in learning and performance. Nursing students' PFSS-V scores improved as they increased in age, school year, and grade point average. The scale exhibited excellent reliability, with a coefficient alpha of .98 and an ICC of .83 (95% confidence interval [0.62, 0.93]). Conclusions: The PFSS-V is a unidimensional and reliable tool for assessing nursing students' perceived faculty support.
Background and Purpose: Verification of a caregiver is required for transplant listing; however, no tool assesses how patient-caregiver dyads manage transplant care. This study adapted and validated the Dyadic Self-Care in Transplant (D-SCIT) scale. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 50 lung transplant patient-caregiver dyads. Content validity was assessed through cognitive interviews, and construct validity was assessed by examining the association between dyad type and relationship mutuality. Results: Dyads completed the D-SCIT with ease, confirming content validity. Congruent dyads were positively correlated with the dyadic mean mutuality score (0.17) and negatively correlated with dyadic incongruence in mutuality (-0.10), demonstrating convergent validity. Conclusions: This study provides preliminary validation of the D-SCIT to assess how transplant dyads engage in transplant self-care, addressing a clinical and research gap.
Background and Purpose: Adequate frontline nurse managers' span of control (SOC) is critical for organizational success. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Nurse Manager SOC Assessment Index. Methods: Phase 1 included development of the instrument, item-level content validity index, expert review, and pilot and cognitive testing of the items. Phase 2 included psychometric testing using coefficient alpha to evaluate reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and principal component analysis to determine the underlying factors to explain SOC. Results: The final scale of nine items had a three-factor solution with 55.7% of the variance explained and coefficient alpha = .669 (n = 265). Conclusions: The instrument is valid and reliable. Being exploratory in nature for the first iteration of the instrument, the reliability threshold for coefficient alpha was adequate; however, it was on the lower end of the threshold, supporting consideration for potential revisions and further testing of the instrument. The tool can be used to measure nurse manager's SOC adequacy and adjust accordingly to impact nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes.
