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Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students
AIM: To assess the internal reliability and validity (content and criterion) of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) as a measure of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding care of older hospitalized patients in Australia. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional survey. METHOD: A convenience...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30918706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.238 |
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author | Venables, Helen Wells, Yvonne Fetherstonhaugh, Deirdre |
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description | AIM: To assess the internal reliability and validity (content and criterion) of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) as a measure of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding care of older hospitalized patients in Australia. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional survey. METHOD: A convenience sample of final year nursing students at an Australian university in October 2014 completed the OPACS (N = 191). Internal reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha, content validity using exploratory factor analysis and criterion validity using correlations between the OPACS and Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz and the Caring Efficacy Scale. RESULTS: Despite good internal reliability on both OPACS subscales, exploratory factor analysis of the 36 items representing behaviours and the 50 items on knowledge and attitudes failed to load strongly on their corresponding factors. Analyses of criterion validity suggested the OPACS scales are measures of attitude. |
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spelling | pubmed-64191142019-03-27 Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students Venables, Helen Wells, Yvonne Fetherstonhaugh, Deirdre Nurs Open Research Articles AIM: To assess the internal reliability and validity (content and criterion) of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) as a measure of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding care of older hospitalized patients in Australia. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional survey. METHOD: A convenience sample of final year nursing students at an Australian university in October 2014 completed the OPACS (N = 191). Internal reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha, content validity using exploratory factor analysis and criterion validity using correlations between the OPACS and Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz and the Caring Efficacy Scale. RESULTS: Despite good internal reliability on both OPACS subscales, exploratory factor analysis of the 36 items representing behaviours and the 50 items on knowledge and attitudes failed to load strongly on their corresponding factors. Analyses of criterion validity suggested the OPACS scales are measures of attitude. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6419114/ /pubmed/30918706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.238 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Venables, Helen Wells, Yvonne Fetherstonhaugh, Deirdre Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students |
title | Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students |
title_full | Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students |
title_fullStr | Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students |
title_short | Psychometric testing of the Older Patients in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) in Australian final year nursing students |
title_sort | psychometric testing of the older patients in acute care survey (opacs) in australian final year nursing students |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30918706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.238 |
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