Self-efficacy of caring for patients in the intensive care unit with delirium : Development and validation of a scale for intensive care unit nurses

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BACKGROUND: Improving the self-efficacy of intensive care unit nurses for delirium care could help them adapt to the changing situation of delirium patients. Validated measures of nurses' self-efficacy of delirium care are lacking OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to develop a Delirium Care Self-Efficacy Scale for assessing nurses' confidence about caring for patients in the intensive care unit and to examine the scale's psychometric properties.

METHODS: Draft scale items were generated from a review of relevant literature and face-to-face interviews with intensive care unit nurses; content validity was conducted with a panel of five experts in delirium. A group of nurses were recruited by convenience sampling from intensive care units (N = 299) for item analysis of the questionnaire, assessment of validity, and reliability of the scale. Nurse participants were recruited from nine adult critical care units affiliated with a hospital in Taiwan. Data were collected from August 2020 to July 2021.

RESULTS: Content validity index was 0.98 for the initial 26 items, indicating good validity. The critical ratio for item discrimination was 14.47-19.29, and item-to-total correlations ranged from 0.67 to 0.81. Principal component analysis reduced items to 13 and extracted two factors, confidence in delirium assessment and confidence in delirium management, which explained 66.82% of the total variance. Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency was 0.94 with good test-retest reliability (r = 0.92). High scale scores among participants were significantly associated with age (≥40 years), work experience in an intensive care unit (≥10 years), delirium education, and willingness to use delirium assessment tools.

CONCLUSIONS: The newly developed Delirium Care Self-Efficacy Scale demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity as a measure of confidence for intensive care nurses caring for and managing patients with delirium in the intensive care unit.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses - 36(2023), 4 vom: 08. Juli, Seite 449-454

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chang, Yu-Ling [VerfasserIn]
Hsieh, Ming-Ju [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Yu-Che [VerfasserIn]
Yeh, Shu-Ling [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shao-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Tsai, Yun-Fang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Delirium
Instrument development
Intensive care unit
Journal Article
Reliability
Review
Self-efficacy
Validity

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Date Completed 19.06.2023

Date Revised 19.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.aucc.2022.08.006

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346542499