Family Nursing Practice Scale: Portuguese Language Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation

Abstract

Studies of family nursing interventions have shown positive results for the health of individuals and families. To increase the availability of instruments that evaluate the practice of family nursing, this research adapted and validated the Family Nursing Practice Scale (FNPS) for use in Brazil with a sample of 144 hospital nurses using a cross-sectional design. The adaptation process involved back-translation, validation by a committee of experts, and semantic analysis. Content validity was analyzed through the content validity coefficient (CVC); construct validity was analyzed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and convergent and discriminant validation through average variance extracted (AVE). The reliability of the measure was evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha index and composite reliability (CR). The results indicate that the adapted version of FNPS is recommended for family nursing research, education, or clinical practice with Brazilian nurses.

Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Validation of the European Portuguese Version of the Iceland-Expressive Family Functioning Questionnaire (ICE-EFFQ)

“…This may be related to the small sample size, or to cultural differences as suggested by the authors of the original questionnaire ( Sveinbjarnardottir et al, 2012 ). In that sense, more testing with larger samples and among participants from distinct cultural backgrounds and with different family illnesses is required, since cross-cultural studies are essential to strengthening the psychometric properties of a scale ( Alfaro-Díaz et al, 2020 ; Rodrigues et al, 2021 ). The test–retest correlation displayed good values of temporal stability for the global scale, and satisfactory values for all subscales.…”

Family‐oriented care and health‐related quality of life for women with gynaecological cancer: A cross‐sectional mixed‐method study

“…The FNPS measure was translated into Finnish for the purpose of this study. The scale has been validated and widely used internationally (Beierwaltes et al, 2020;Naef et al, 2021;Petursdottir et al, 2019;Rodrigues et al, 2021;Svavarsdottir et al, 2018). The FNPS measure has previously been used in a study measuring family engagement in a ward treating patients with gynaecological cancer (Naef et al, 2020).…”

“…The scale consists of 10 Likert-scale questions and three open-ended questions. The original version of the instrument is in English but has subsequently been translated by researchers into languages such as German (Naef et al, 2021) and Portuguese (Rodrigues et al, 2021).…”

Influence of perceived benefits, barriers and activities of family engagement in care on family nursing practice: A cross‐sectional correlational study

“…The demand for increasing staffing levels and reduced workloads in the setting and other low-middle income healthcare settings is warranted, this should be coupled with rigorous studies providing evidence of changes in family nursing practice after increasing staffing levels. In addition, the association of education and nursing practice with families supports previous recommendations (e.g.,Park et al, 2021;Rodrigues et al, 2021) about the need for family nursing content within nursing curricula and continuous professional development, to enhance nurses´ skills and confidence when engaging with families in care in practice. With respect to reciprocity in the nursefamily relationship subscale scores, the item 'families approach nurses about the patient's illness' was the least scored.…”