Adapting the Individualized Care Scale for cross‐cultural comparison

Abstract

The ICS shows promise as a tool for evaluating individualized care in European cultures. The international expansion of an existing instrument developed for one country facilitates comparative studies across countries. There is a need to further test the construct validity and appropriateness of the ICS in different settings in European and nonwestern cultures.

Assessment of individualized nursing care in hospitalized patients in a university hospital in Turkey

“…Consistent with the present study, other research has also shown that patients' perceptions of individuality in the context of nursing care are stronger than their awareness of nursing actions (Suhonen et al . , , , , Acaroglu et al . , Land & Suhonen , Seyyed Rasooli et al .…”

“…The higher the score on the ICS‐A, the more individualised nursing interventions have become; the higher the score on the ICS‐B, the higher the patient's perception of individualised care (Suhonen et al . , , Acaroglu et al . , , Acaroglu & Sendir ).…”

Impact of patient characteristics on orthopaedic and trauma patients' perceptions of individualised nursing care

“…This study is part of a larger international study, the Individualised Care Project 46,47 . A cross‐sectional survey design was used to study orthopaedic and trauma patients ready for discharge home from acute care in regional, central or university hospitals in five countries: Finland, Greece, Sweden, the UK and the USA, during 2005–06.…”

“…A convenience sample of discharged orthopaedic and trauma patients from 27 wards in 14 hospitals provided data collected in Finland ( n = 500), Greece ( n = 368), Sweden ( n = 300), the UK ( n = 158) and the USA ( n = 300). The sample size was determined by a power calculation using the nQuery Advisor program for the comparison of patients' perceptions of individualised care 46,47 . The sampling frame totalled 1626.…”

“…The development and testing of the ICS was based on scores collected in several datasets from discharged hospital patients 51 and has been systematically validated for research use. There is evidence for the ICS criterion‐related validity, 52 content validity, 50,52 factor structure, 49,51 internal consistency, 51 stability 49 and cultural validity 46,47,54,55 …”