1. 'Development and psychometric evaluation of the safety feeling scale in adult patients at hospital: Exploratory sequential mixed method'.
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Dabaghi, Sahar, Zandi, Mitra, Ebadi, Abbas, Abbaszadeh, Abbas, and Rohani, Camelia
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EXPERIMENTAL design ,RELIABILITY (Personality trait) ,RESEARCH ,RESEARCH evaluation ,CONFIDENCE ,RESEARCH methodology ,RESEARCH methodology evaluation ,SELF-evaluation ,PSYCHOMETRICS ,QUALITATIVE research ,TEST validity ,MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques ,HOSPITAL care ,FACTOR analysis ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,SCALE analysis (Psychology) ,EMOTIONS ,CONTENT analysis ,DATA analysis software ,PATIENT safety - Abstract
Aim and Objectives: This study aimed to develop and examine psychometric properties of the safety feeling scale (SFS) in adult patients to assess their sense of safety during a hospital stay. Design: Mixed methods design. A SQUIRE checklist was used. Methods: This is a study with two phases of scale development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the scale. In the first phase, the concept of 'safety feeling' was analysed using a hybrid model. Thus, a systematic review and then a qualitative study with hospitalized patients (n = 31) were conducted by conventional content analysis. In the psychometric phase, factorial validity, reliability, feasibility, and responsiveness of the scale were evaluated by different tests in various samples. Results: After integrating the results of the systematic review and qualitative study, a scale item pool with 84 items was developed. In the psychometric phase, 12 items with four factors were specified; 'effective care,' 'confidence in the healthcare team,' 'emotional enrichment' and 'hygienic facilities,' explaining 51% of the total variance of the scale. They were confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Internal consistency and stability of the scale were satisfactory. Feasibility and responsiveness were also acceptable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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