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Families' Importance in Nursing Care

Nurses' Attitudes—An Instrument Development

Eva Benzein, PhD, RNT

School of Human Sciences, Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden, eva.benzein{at}hik.se

Pauline Johansson, PhD student, RN

School of Human Sciences, Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden

Kristofer Franzén Årestedt, PhD, RN

School of Human Sciences, Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden

Agneta Berg, PhD, RNT

Department of Health Sciences, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden

Britt-Inger Saveman, PhD, RNT, FEANS

School of Human Sciences, Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden

This article describes the development and testing of a research instrument, Families' Importance in Nursing Care—Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA), designed to measure nurses' attitudes about the importance of involving families in nursing care. The instrument was inductively developed from a literature review and tested with a sample of Swedish nurses. An item-total correlation and a first principal component analysis were used to validate the final instrument, including a second principal component analysis to analyze dimensionality, and Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate internal consistency. The instrument consists of 26 items and reveals four factors: families as a resource in nursing care, family as a conversational partner, family as a burden, and family as its own resource. Cronbach's alpha was 0.88 for the total instrument and 0.69 to 0.80 for the subscales. The instrument requires further testing with other nurse populations.

Key Words: attitudes • family nursing • instrument development • nurses

Journal of Family Nursing, Vol. 14, No. 1, 97-117 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1074840707312716
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