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. 2022 May;9(3):1844-1853.
doi: 10.1002/nop2.931. Epub 2021 May 15.

Development and validation of knowledge of caring for COVID-19 tool

Saada Albarwani  1 , Mohammed A Almaskari  1 , Salwa Saleh Alalawi  1 , Turkiya Saleh Almaskari  1 , Amal Said Alshidi  1
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Development and validation of knowledge of caring for COVID-19 tool

Saada Albarwani et al. Nurs Open. 2022 May.

Abstract

Aim: We aimed to examine the validity and reliability of a newly developed tool that measures nursing and allied health students' knowledge of caring for patients with COVID-19.

Method: We developed in five phases (literature review, item development, expert evaluation using content validity index, revisions based on a pilot test, and exploratory factor and reliability analyses on the data from the main study). We administered online surveys (the pilot test & the main study using a cross-sectional design) to students in a governmental health sciences college in Oman.

Results: The pilot test had 43 participants, and the main study had 507. The item content validity index scores ranged from 0.81-1.00, and the scale content validity index for 20 items was 0.95. The factor analysis revealed a three-factor solution. The overall Cronbach's alpha for the final (19-item) version of the tool after item deletion was 0.76. The reliabilities for Subscales 1, 2, and 3 were 0.83, 0.67, and 0.51, respectively.

Keywords: COVID-19; content validity index; exploratory factor analysis; knowledge of caring; reliability; tool development.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Validation process of the Knowledge of caring for COVID‐19 tool (KCOVID‐19)
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Screen plot indicating the cutoff for retained factors (N = 507)
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