Research in reliability and validity of the Chinese version of nursing activities scale / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To translate the English version of Nursing Activities Scale (NAS) into Chinese,and to test the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of NAS.Methods A total of 520 nurses were tested by the Chinese version of NAS.SPSS17.0 and AMOS 17.0 were used to test the reliability and validity.Results The correlations between the items and total scale ranged from 0.232 to 0.732 (P＜0.01).Four factors were extracted by exploratory factor analysis and they could explain 52.251％ of the total variance.The confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good model fit,and the fit indices were x2/df =1.145,GFI =0.962,AGFI =0.933,RMR =0.028,RMSEA =0.017,NFI =0.957,CFI =0.994.Conclusion Chinese version of NAS is reliable and valid,and can be used to assess the level of professional nursing practice.