Development and validity and reliability study of a Turkish Psychosocial Care Competence Self-Assessment Scale

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Objectives: The aim of the present study was to develop a valid and reliable Turkish self-assessment tool to measure the psychosocial competency of nurses working in general clinics. Methods: The sample used for this methodological study consisted of 300 nurses working in the general clinics of Sivas Cumhuriyet University Health Services Practice and Research Hospital. A personal information form and the Psychoso cial Care Competence Self-Assessment Scale were used to collect the data. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 22.0 software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) was used to perform the statistical analysis of the data. Results: The content-scope validity and construct validity were created for the draft scale using items selected from the related literature. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed for construct validity. The reliability of the scale was evaluated using item, internal consistency, and test-retest analysis. The EFA re sults indicated that 4 factors explained 70.44% of the total variance. CFA revealed that the data set was an acceptable model with excellent fit. The internal consistency coefficient of the entire scale was 0.93 and that of the subscales was found to be 0.80–0.93. Conclusion: A Turkish Psychosocial Care Competence Self-Assessment Scale for nurses was created with 18 valid and reliable items with 4 subscales: symptom identification, use of knowledge, intervention, and diagnosis.