Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing
BACKGROUND: An ethical competence list for nurses could guide educators and managers in the field of health care to both support the development of ethical conduct and improve the assessment of ethical competence in health care. AIM: This study aimed to verify the reliability and validity of the Eth...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9066827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00886-2 |
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author | Katayama, Harumi Muramatsu, Taeko Aoki, Yoshimi Nagashima, Eri |
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description | BACKGROUND: An ethical competence list for nurses could guide educators and managers in the field of health care to both support the development of ethical conduct and improve the assessment of ethical competence in health care. AIM: This study aimed to verify the reliability and validity of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale (ECCS) and to obtain suggestions for its use as an evaluation form in rubric format among a sample of Japanese nurses. RESEARCH DESIGN: This research employed a descriptive and cross-sectional design. PARTICIPANTS AND RESEARCH CONTEXT: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 1157 nurses working in two hospitals in Japan. The contents of the survey were demographic data, a draft of the ECCS consisting of 22 competencies from four core competencies, questions regarding experience in learning about medical/nursing ethics, and the Work Motivation Measurement Scale for Nurses. Three levels of difficulty for the 22 items were established using relative comparisons of the mean scores within the four core competencies. Three groups, namely, an expert group, a middle group, and a beginner group, were categorized according to the quartiles of the total ECCS score. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS: This study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (Decision no. 18-267). The ethical principles of voluntary participation, anonymity, and confidentiality were considered. FINDINGS: A total of 962 valid responses were analyzed. The ECCS scores for the three levels of difficulty were significantly different from each other. Stability was confirmed by the test-retest of the total ECCS scores (r = .900, p < .0001). The total ECCS scores for the three groups showed significant differences in all pairs. The Cronbach’s α coefficient ranged from .72 to .89 for each core competency, and internal consistency was confirmed. CONCLUSION: The reliability and validity of the ECCS as a scale were statistically verified, and we were able to obtain suggestions for its application as a form of evaluation in rubric format. |
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spelling | pubmed-90668272022-05-04 Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing Katayama, Harumi Muramatsu, Taeko Aoki, Yoshimi Nagashima, Eri BMC Nurs Research BACKGROUND: An ethical competence list for nurses could guide educators and managers in the field of health care to both support the development of ethical conduct and improve the assessment of ethical competence in health care. AIM: This study aimed to verify the reliability and validity of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale (ECCS) and to obtain suggestions for its use as an evaluation form in rubric format among a sample of Japanese nurses. RESEARCH DESIGN: This research employed a descriptive and cross-sectional design. PARTICIPANTS AND RESEARCH CONTEXT: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 1157 nurses working in two hospitals in Japan. The contents of the survey were demographic data, a draft of the ECCS consisting of 22 competencies from four core competencies, questions regarding experience in learning about medical/nursing ethics, and the Work Motivation Measurement Scale for Nurses. Three levels of difficulty for the 22 items were established using relative comparisons of the mean scores within the four core competencies. Three groups, namely, an expert group, a middle group, and a beginner group, were categorized according to the quartiles of the total ECCS score. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS: This study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (Decision no. 18-267). The ethical principles of voluntary participation, anonymity, and confidentiality were considered. FINDINGS: A total of 962 valid responses were analyzed. The ECCS scores for the three levels of difficulty were significantly different from each other. Stability was confirmed by the test-retest of the total ECCS scores (r = .900, p < .0001). The total ECCS scores for the three groups showed significant differences in all pairs. The Cronbach’s α coefficient ranged from .72 to .89 for each core competency, and internal consistency was confirmed. CONCLUSION: The reliability and validity of the ECCS as a scale were statistically verified, and we were able to obtain suggestions for its application as a form of evaluation in rubric format. BioMed Central 2022-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9066827/ /pubmed/35505338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00886-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Katayama, Harumi Muramatsu, Taeko Aoki, Yoshimi Nagashima, Eri Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing |
title | Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing |
title_full | Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing |
title_fullStr | Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing |
title_short | Psychometric evaluation of the Ethical Caring Competency Scale in nursing |
title_sort | psychometric evaluation of the ethical caring competency scale in nursing |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9066827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00886-2 |
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