Validatioin of the Evidence-based Nursing questionnaire-Chinese version

Saturday, 16 November 2013

Song-Yun Tsai, Master
Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Municipal Kai-Syuan Psychiatric Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Yu-Chen Lin, RN, NP, MCN
Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Municipal Kai-Syuan Psychiatric Hospital, Kao-Hsiung City, Taiwan
Shu-Fang Su, RN, MSN
Department of Nursing, Kai-Suan Psychiatric Hospital, Kao-Hsiung City, Taiwan

Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to understand the process to establish the validation of Evidence-Based Nursing questionnaire-Chinese version.

Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to compare the validation of Evidence-based nursing questionnaire between English and Chinese version.

AIMS

Evidence-Based Nursing is the key component of nursing practice. In addition, it is important to understand the attitudes, barriers and skills of evidence-based nursing among nurses before design a in-service program. There were English version evidence-based questionnaire. However, it has not been translated in to Chinese version and validated in Taiwan. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop and validate a Chinese version of the evidence-based nursing.

METHODS

A total of 195 psychiatric nurses in the variety hospital were participated in this study. Participants were assessed before, during, one month and three months after the evidence-based nursing conference. SPSS 19.0 for windows was used to analysize the data.

RESULTS

The overall response rate was 71.1%. 95% of participants were female and 57.9% were single. In addition, 50.8% of psychiatric nurses noticed that evidence-based nursing was not implicated in the ward. 82.1% of nurses were not be trained for evidence-based nursing and 50.3% of participants addressed that they did not interest in evidence-based nursing. The CVI value was 0.81. The internal consistency of each domain was high (composite reliability: 0.83-0.93). The test-retest reliability of questionnaire was 0.73-0.97.  Moreover, the value of KMO was 0.89 and 0.93. The result of those data showed that the better validation of this questionnaire.

CONCLUSIONS

Results support the Chinese version of Evidence-Based Nursing measurement tool as a valid tool to assess the attitudes, barriers and skills among psychiatric nursing in Taiwan.