Author(s): Ribeiro, Olga ; Vicente, Corália Maria Fortuna de Brito ; Martins, MM ; Trindade, Letícia De Lima ; Sousa, Clemente Neves ; Cardoso, Maria Filomena Passos Teixeira
Date: 2020
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/36661
Origin: Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto
Subject(s): Working Environment; Validation Studies; Professional Practice; Nursing
Objective: to construct and validate the content of the Assessment Scale of Nursing Professional Practice Environments. Method: methodological study conducted from January to May 2020. The construction of the Scale after a previous qualitative research and literature review. Content validation was performed by 22 experts. Results: initially, the Scale had 128 items grouped in the dimensions structure, process and outcome. Due to the experts’ evaluation, in the structure dimension, the 65 initial items, 20 were excluded, 10 were reformulated and one, added. In the process dimension, of the 49 initial items, 8 were excluded and 2 were reformulated. In the outcome dimension, of the 14 initial items, 2 were excluded, 2 reformulated and added 1. The final version contained 100 items, in which the Content Validity Index of each item fluctuated between 0.86 and 1. Conclusion: the construction and subsequent validation of the items by the experts was a fundamental step, giving security to the continuity of psychometric procedures.
