Adaptation of the Critical Care Family Need Inventory to the Turkish population and its psychometric properties

In the complex environment of intensive care units, needs of patients' relatives might be seen as the lowest priority. On the other hand, because of their patients' critical and often uncertain conditions, stress levels of relatives are quite high. This study aims to adapt the Critical Car...

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Published in:PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) CA), 2015-08, Vol.3, p.e1208-e1208
Main Authors: Büyükçoban, Sibel, Çiçeklioğlu, Meltem, Demiral Yılmaz, Nilüfer, Civaner, M Murat
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Critical care
Critical Care Family Needs Inventory
Emergency and Critical Care
Experts
Factor analysis
Health care reform
Health Policy
Heart
Intensive care
Intensive care units
Language
Medical care quality
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medicine
Neurology
Nurses
Nursing
Patient relatives
Patient rights
Patient satisfaction
Patients
Physicians
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychometric properties
Quantitative psychology
Researchers
Statistics
Translations
Validation studies
Validity
Workers
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Summary:In the complex environment of intensive care units, needs of patients' relatives might be seen as the lowest priority. On the other hand, because of their patients' critical and often uncertain conditions, stress levels of relatives are quite high. This study aims to adapt the Critical Care Family Need Inventory, which assesses the needs of patients' relatives, for use with the Turkish-speaking population and to assess psychometric properties of the resulting inventory. The study was conducted in a state hospital with the participation of 191 critical care patient relatives. Content validity was assessed by expert opinions, and construct validity was examined by exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to determine internal consistency. The translated inventory has a content validity ratio higher than the minimum acceptable level. Its construct validity was established by the EFA. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the entire scale was 0.93 and higher than 0.80 for subscales, thus demonstrating the translated version's reliability. The Turkish adaptation appropriately reflects all dimensions of needs in the original CCFNI, and its psychometric properties were acceptable. The revised tool could be useful for helping critical care healthcare workers provide services in a holistic approach and for policymakers to improve quality of service.
ISSN:2167-8359
2167-8359
DOI:10.7717/peerj.1208