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. 2021 Jul;8(4):1678-1687.
doi: 10.1002/nop2.802. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

Developing an assessment tool for geropsychiatric mental healthcare knowledge and attitude evaluations in clinical practice for nursing students

Chia-Shan Wu  1 , Mei-Fang Chen  1 , Jiin-Ru Rong  2 , Chieh-Yu Liu  3
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Developing an assessment tool for geropsychiatric mental healthcare knowledge and attitude evaluations in clinical practice for nursing students

Chia-Shan Wu et al. Nurs Open. 2021 Jul.

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Nurs Open. 2021 Nov;8(6):3697. doi: 10.1002/nop2.1026. Nurs Open. 2021. PMID: 34638166 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

Aim: To develop an instrument to investigate geropsychiatric psychological symptoms, health problem nursing knowledge (GPN-K), geropsychiatric psychological symptoms and health problem nursing attitude scale (GPN-A) in clinical practice for nursing students.

Design: Instrument development and cross-sectional study for psychometric testing.

Methods: Construct validity was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach's α.

Results: A total of 300 students have completed the questionnaires (85.71% response rate). The CFA of GPN-K showed good fitness and validity. The Kuder-Richardson 20 (KR-20) value of the internal consistency reliability is 0.64. The GPN-A overall content validity index is 0.95. A three-factor structure was shown by exploratory factor analysis. The three factors are communication and care, helping others improve and problem evaluation tendency. The total variance explained is 59.01%. Cronbach's alpha of GPN-A equals 0.84, which represents good internal consistency.

Keywords: attitude; geropsychiatric; knowledge; nursing student.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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