VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE CLINICAL INDICATOR OF NURSING DIAGNOSIS: FATIGUE ON PATIENT UNDERTAKING HAEMODIALYSIS

Atika Dwi Astuti (Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
Intansari Nurjannah (Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
Sri Mulyani (Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

Belitung Nursing Journal
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2018): May - June

Background: Fatigue as nursing diagnosis is a common phenomenon in patient undertaking haemodialysis. There is, however, no clear instrument to measure the clinical indicators of this nursing diagnosis. Objectives: To measure the validity and reliability an instrument to measure clinical indicator in nursing diagnosis fatigue. Methods: Content Validity Index for Scale (S-CVI) and Point-Biserial Correlation were used to measure the validity of instrument. Cronbach Alpha Reliability was used for reliability of 72 patients undertaking haemodialysis. Results: S-CVI score was 1 on relevance, accuracy and clarity, 0.98 on simplicity and ambiguity. The Cronbach’s Alpha of the instrument was 0.675 which was considered reliable. Conclusion: The instrument to measure clinical indicators of nursing diagnoses fatigue has acceptable validity and reliability score in Indonesian, and it is recommended to be used in clinical setting.