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THE FACTORS AFFECTING PATIENT AGGRESSION SCALE: PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING OF A NEW TOOL.
- Source :
- Central European Journal of Nursing & Midwifery; 2021, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p342-352, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Aim: To report the development and psychometric testing of the Factors Affecting Patient Aggression Scale (the FAPAS), a new attitude scale constructed to measure nurses’ perception of miscellaneous factors in terms of their potential to increase the risk of patient aggression against nurses. Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: The study was conducted according to the STROBE checklist. Data were collected using the FAPAS between November 2014 and May 2015. Registered nurses (n = 1,220) from nine teaching hospitals across Slovakia were included in the study. Construct validity and reliability of the instrument were tested using SPSS 18.0. Results: Resulting from the factor analysis, a six-factor structure was revealed. Six subscales representing specific groups of factors affecting patient aggression against nurses can be conditioned by Gender aspects, Situations of physical and emotional distress of a patient, Nurse-related factors, Factors of nursing shift organization, Patient-related factors, Factors of the nursing workplace environment. The Cronbach’s alpha of the instrument was 0.91, ranging from 0.63 to 0.88 for subscales. Conclusion: Based on psychometric testing in the Slovak sociocultural context, the FAPAS showed acceptable reliability and construct validity and thus is considered a promising instrument for measuring nurses’ perception of miscellaneous factors of patient aggression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EXPERIMENTAL design
RELIABILITY (Personality trait)
WORK environment
NURSES' attitudes
ACADEMIC medical centers
RESEARCH methodology
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
CROSS-sectional method
PSYCHOMETRICS
MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
SEX distribution
NURSE-patient relationships
RESEARCH funding
NURSES
FACTOR analysis
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
AGGRESSION (Psychology)
DATA analysis software
STATISTICAL correlation
PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23363517
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Central European Journal of Nursing & Midwifery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150780734
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2021.12.0009