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- Title
Psychometric testing of the Revised Humane Caring Scale for adult patients in Singapore.
- Authors
Goh, Mien Li; Ang, Emily NK; Chan, Yiong-Huak; He, Hong-Gu; Vehviläinen-Julkunen, Katri
- Abstract
In this study, we examined the validity and reliability of the Revised Humane Caring Scale as used by adult patients in a tertiary hospital in Singapore. A three-phase descriptive quantitative study was conducted. In phase I, an expert panel of nurses and inpatients examined the content validity of the scale; phase II comprised a pilot study on 20 patients; and in phase III, a large-scale study on 235 patients was implemented to test the internal consistency of the scale. The results revealed that the content validity index of the scale ranged from 0.856 to 1, and the scale had a high inter-rater agreement kappa value of 0.940. Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.798 to 0.877 in phase II, and from 0.579 to 0.760 in phase III, respectively. The Revised Humane Caring Scale revealed good content validity and an acceptable level of internal consistency. The scale is an acceptable measurement tool for evaluating adult patients' satisfaction during hospitalization.
- Subjects
SINGAPORE; MEDICAL care; STATISTICAL correlation; PATIENT satisfaction; PATIENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICS; QUANTITATIVE research; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Nursing & Health Sciences, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 3, p370
- ISSN
1441-0745
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/nhs.12199