The reliability and validity of Chinese version of communication and sharing of information Scale / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese Version of Communication and Sharing of Information Scale(CSI) in the the assessment of the efficacy and quality of collaboration of the physician and nursing related staffs.Methods All the sample enrolled from 10 hospitals of Tianjin,all the subjects voluntarily signed the informed consent.Totally 600 subjects were tested by CSI.Exploration and confirmation factor analysis were used to examine the construct validity.Cronbaeh' s α was applied for examining internal consistency of the scales,the correlation analysis was used to examining the test-retest reliability of the scales.Results Exploratory Factor Analysis revealed that Communication and Sharing of Information Scale included 3 factorsCommunication with nursing related staff,Communication with physician,Medical information sharing.Confirmation Factor analysis revealed that x2/dfwas 5.760,NNFI 0.900,GFI 0.945,AGFI 0.923,REMEA was 0.06,all reached the correction criteria of the scale,indicated that this scale had good construction validity.Cronbach' sαof the total scale was 0.870,the Cronbach' s α of the 3 factors were 0.780,0.788,0.815 respectively,indicated this scale had good inner-consistency.The total scale test-retest reliability was 0.870 after 1 week in 100 subjects randomly enrolled from all the previous subjects,indicated this scale had good reliability.Conclusion CSI has good reliability and validity and is suitable to assess the efficacy and quality of the collaboration of the physician and nursing related staffs.