Current situation and influencing factors of nurses' caring behavior

Abstract

Objective To investigate the current situation of nurses' caring behavior and analyze its influencing factors,in order to provide basis for the practice of caring behavior.Methods Caring nurse-patient interaction scale-short scale ( CNPI-23 ) was used to investigate 272 chnical nurses' caring behavior from 3 aspects of importance,competence and feasibility.The score of each item for each aspect was 5 to 15,and total score of the scale was 69 to 345.The Cronbach' s α of the scale was 0.97,and of the 3 aspects was 0.92 to 0.95.The exploratory and confirmative factor analysis showed that CNPI-23 had good construct validity.Results 272 questionnaires were given out,267 were called back and 260 were effective,with the effective rate of 95.6％.The score of each item ranged from 11.67 to 14.23,of which the highest 5 items were mainly about operative caring behavior,and the lowest 5 items were mainly about expressive caring behavior.The age and working life of nurses were positively correlated with the score of competency aspect ( r =0.35,P ＜ 0.05 )and clinical caring dimension within feasibility aspect ( r =0.40,P ＜ 0.05 ).Nurses' age was also positively correlated with the score of humanistic care within competency aspect ( r =0.13,P ＜ 0.05 ).The higher nurses' professional title was,the higher their scores in competency aspect ( x2 =22.00,P ＜ 0.05 ) and feasibility aspect ( x2 =10.71,P ＜ 0.05 ) were.Conclusions Rich life and work experience and the improvement of competency can promote nurses' caring behavior. Key words: Nurses; Caring; Humanistic care; Nurse-patient interaction