Assessment of reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Nursing Students' Perception of Instructor Caring (S-NSPIC)

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212803
• Publication Date: 2019-02-28T18:46:56Z
• Authors: Macarena Romero-M...; Juan Gómez-Salgado; Máximo de la Fuen...; Juana Macías-Seda; Alejandro García-...; José Antonio Ponc...
• Keywords: Content Validity; Exploratory factor analysis; Concurrent validity; Validity

The care that clinical instructors demonstrate to students is essential for their education, considering the strong impact it has on future relationships with patients, relatives, and other health professionals. Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Instructor Caring (NSPIC) an instrument designed assess nursing students’ perceptions instructor’s caring behaviors. A trans-cultural, conceptual, psychometric validation study was conducted 315 at University Seville during practices in three regional hospitals. NSPIC translated adapted Spanish. content validity established by a panel experts. To concurrent culturally Spanish version Clinical Placement Evaluation Tool (CPET) used as gold standard. construct determined exploratory factor analysis identify internal structure NSPIC-S. consistency Cronbach’s α intra-observer reliability each item test-retest. index varied between 0.53 0.93 correlation CPET moderate. revealed five factors, one which differed from original scale. value 0.95 intraclass coefficients 0.5 0.89. Our provided NSPIC, valid reliable be context,