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- Title
Development and Testing of a Measure of Self-awareness Among Nurses.
- Authors
Rasheed, Subia Parveen; Sundus, Amara; Younas, Ahtisham; Fakhar, Joel; Inayat, Shahzad
- Abstract
Self-awareness is an essential nursing competency and there is limited knowledge about nurses' levels and application of self-awareness and instruments to measure nursing-specific self-awareness. Using mixed methods, we developed and tested a scale to measure nurses' self-awareness. First, 13 nurses were interviewed to understand their meanings of self-awareness and to develop nursing-specific self-awareness scale. Qualitative analysis generated professional, personal, contextual, and contentious aspects of self-awareness. Second, a 25-item scale assessed through expert consultations and pilot testing with 252 nurses. The content validity index was 0.94. After psychometric testing, seven items were deleted. Cronbach's alpha for the 18-item scale was 0.87 and the four-factor structure accounted for 45.55% of the variance. Lastly, the final scale was administered to 216 nurses. Nurses' had moderate self-awareness (59.65 ± 7.01), significantly associated with age and years of the clinical and educational experience. Intensive care nurses were more self-aware than nurses in other settings.
- Subjects
CLINICAL competence; FACTOR analysis; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; NURSE-patient relationships; NURSES; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING practice; PROFESSIONAL employee training; RESEARCH; SELF-evaluation; STATISTICS; QUALITATIVE research; DATA analysis; SELF-consciousness (Awareness); DATA analysis software; TERTIARY care; MANN Whitney U Test; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2021, Vol 43, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0193945920923079