Evaluation of the reliability and validity of Nursing Humanistic Care Experience Scale for Chronic Disease Patients

Abstract

Objective To cross-cultural adapt and test the reliability and validity of Humanistic Relationship Experience Scale (HRES) made by Boscart. Methods Cross-culture Adaptation was carried out by following American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Evidence Based Medicine Committee (AAOS). A convenience sampling was conducted among 180 patients with chronic disease, and then assessed the reliability and validity of HRES. The internal consistency coefficient and the test-retest were used to assess the reliability of HRES, and the content validity index (CVI) and construct validity were used to assess the validity of HRES. Results In order to understand the purpose and content of the scale easily, the Chinese version title of HRES was revised to Nursing Humanistic Care Experience Scale-Noninfectious Chronic Disease Patients Version (NHCES-NCDP) after soliciting experts′ advice. The CVI of the scale was 1; factor analysis got three factors, which could explain 67.897% of the total variance. A 0.965 Cronbach α of total scale was obtained, and for each dimension range was 0.876-0.948; the test-retest reliability was 0.710 for the overall scale. Conclusion NHCES- NCDP is reliable and valid, which can be used to assess the experience of nursing humanistic care for patients with chronic diseases, and to explore nurses′ implementation of nursing humanistic care. Key words: Chronic disease; Nursing humanistic care; Reliability; Validity