Psychometric evaluation of a modified caring assessment tool

ABSTRACT

Caring is the essence of nursing the measurement of caring and its effectiveness on patient outcomes is central to nursing, efficient, theoretically sound evaluation of caring, remains problematic. This descriptive study aimed to modify the caring assessment tool, to test the validity and internal consistency reliability of the tool. A convenience sample of 200 hospitalized adult patients in medical-surgical units at Ain Shams University hospitals were included in the study. The modified caring assessment tool consisted of 33 items divided into seven factors. [Basic human needs, human respect, attentive reassurance, healing environment, affiliation needs, dependence-independence continuum and therapeutic intervention]. The results showed that the items loaded significantly on the factors and alpha reliability recorded statistical significance between 0.85 to 0.95. Homogeneity coefficients for internal consistency reliability of the modified caring assessment tool through factor loading showed support for the classification of the tool and ascertain pertinent items for the factors, as well as the content validity investigated by varied sources achieved acceptable confirmation