Jurnal NERS
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2016): April 2016

Psychometric Evaluation of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale for Children Hospitalized with Acute Respiratory Infection

dewi elizadiani suza (Fakultas Keperawatan, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2016

Abstract

Introduction: Psychometric Evaluation of the quality of nursing care scale is a vital key to improve the quality of nursing care for hospitalized acute respiratory infection (ARI) children in order to decrease morbidity and mortality of ARI children, especially in Indonesia.Methods: Construct validity was identified using the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), contrasted group approach, and reliability.Results: Construct validity: 1) EFA found that the QNCS-HARIC consisted of 37 items with four factor and total variance explained of 42.92% and factor loadings ranged from .30 to .70; 2) contrasted group approach found that the mean scores of the 37 items QNCS-HARIC between two groups were significantly different (t = -22.91; p = .000); and 3) Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the total 37 item QNCS-HARIC was .93. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of Factor 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the 37 item QNCS-HARIC were  .87, .80, .77, and .76, respectively.Conclusion: Although the 37 items QNCS-HARIC model was acceptable, it was less representative, especially in the socio-cultural dimension of ARI children and family because  it consisted of only 3 from 10 items which could not measure the complate dimension of the socio-cultural aspect.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JNERS

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Subject

Nursing

Description

The scope of this journal includes studies that intend to examine and understand nursing health care interventions and health policies which utilize advanced nursing research. The journal also committed to improve the high quality research by publishing analytic techniques, measures, and research ...