Reliability and validity of the retranslated China version of Nurses′Global Assessment of Suicide Risk scale / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To retranslate the Nurses′ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk scale (NGASR) into Chinese, and then to test the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of NGASR. Methods Standard forward-back translation techniques and Chinese cultural adaptation were used in the translation of the NGASR according to the Brislin translation model and then Chinese cultural adapted The reliability and validity of Chinese version of NGASR were tested in 209 psychiatric inpatients who were admitted to hospital into two days. Results The contents were obtained between the Chinese cultural adapted version and original scale. The internal consistency reliability is 0.878 which was showed by KR20, The spearman correlation coefficient was 0.90 (P<0.01) which was represented the intraobserver reliability. Five factors were abstracted by exploratory factor analysis, which could explain 57％of the total variance. The spearman correlation coefficient with Beck Hopelessness Scale (BSS) and Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation-Chinese Version (BSI-CV) were 0.50 and 0.37 (P<0.01). Conclusion The China version of NGASR demonstrates good reliability and content validity, which can be used to assess suicide inpatients with psychiatric in China.