Instrument Development Measuring Critical Care Nurses' Attitudes and Behaviors with End-of-life Care

Abstract

Background-Although critical care nurses are expected to focus on providing life-sustaining measures, many intensive care patients actually receive end-of-life care.

Radiation Therapy Students′ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs about Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients

“…Personal experiences with PEOLC were found to influence students' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs, which is consistent with previous research [11,30,39,40]. Students with personal experiences focused on the humanistic and holistic aspects of care.…”

The development and content validity testing of the Quick-EBP-VIK: A survey instrument measuring nurses’ values, knowledge and implementation of evidence-based practice

“…[15] At the onset of this project, 2009, a review of the literature was performed to identify existing tools evaluating evidence based practice in nursing. This search revealed 29 articles which described 17 different instruments.…”

Moral distress and the Australian aged care worker: A mixed methods study

“…To target this concern a new set of five industry and academic experts and five non-academics where asked to complete the electronic survey to specifically provide feedback on the useability of the interface and the comprehensibility of the survey items. Pilot testing an instrument for clarity and useability is a recognised strategy in the instrument development process (Zomorodi & Lynn, 2010). Feedback from these testers was generally positive with the instrument "easy to follow" and item wording "quite clear".…”

“…Expert review is suggested as "the most convincing test of face validity…" (Gomm, 2008, p. 40), and is a strategy often used when designing measurement instruments (Curley, Hunsberger, & Harris, 2013;Ivankova, 2014;Kennerly et al, 2012;Kostovich, 2012;Zomorodi & Lynn, 2010). Face validity is concerned with determining through discussion that an individual measure represents the "…content of the concept"… it is intended to measure (Singh, 2007, p. 79).…”

“…The pilot study also helps minimise or remove "… ambiguities and other source of bias and error" (Singh, 2007, p. 72). Pilot studies are commonly used in health research seeking to develop new instruments (Curley et al, 2013;Glasberg et al, 2006;Gustafsson, Eriksson, Strandberg, & Norberg, 2010;Halcomb, Caldwell, Salamonson, & Davidson, 2011;Zomorodi & Lynn, 2010).…”