Development and reliability and validity test of Patient Comfort Scale after enterostomy / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To development a comfort scale for the patients after enterostomy,test its reliability and validity and to provide a tool for nursing staff to measure the comfort level of patients with enterostomy.@*Methods@#Pre-test scales were formed based on literature research methods, group meetings and expert consultation. A total of 310 patients after enterostomy were investigated in a top three hospital in Tianjin Union Medical Center, and the scale was tested by project analysis, validity analysis and reliability analysis.@*Results@#Exploratory factor analysis identified four principal factors which explained 52.584%, and the scale determined 4 dimensions, including 35 items. The Cronbach′s α coefficient of the scale was 0.937, the test-retest reliability was 0.846, and the half-fold reliability was 0.926.@*Conclusion@#The comfort scale for patients after enterostomy in this study has good reliability and validity. It can be used to evaluate the comfort of patients after enterostomy.