Cultural adaptation and validation of an instrument about nursing critical thinking skills

• Main Authors: Jacqueline Faria de Oliveira (Author), Esperanza Zuriguel Perez (Author), Maria Beatriz Guimarães Ferreira (Author), Patricia da Silva Pires (Author), Elizabeth Barichello (Author), Maria Helena Barbosa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

ABSTRACT Objectives: to validate the Nursing Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire regarding cultural aspects and metric properties. Methods: a methodological research carried out through cross-cultural adaptation, face and content validity, dimensional construct and known groups validity, test-retest reliability and internal consistency. 511 nurses from four hospitals participated in the study, of which 54 participated in retest. Results: the instrument validation for Brazilian Portuguese maintained equivalences, according to the original version. The dimensional validity demonstrated adjustment to the tetrafactorial structure of the original version (GFI=0.69). There were statistically significant differences in critical thinking skills between nurses with graduate degrees and who undertook training, reading articles, developing research and working in an institution with a longer time implementation of the Nursing Process. The instrument showed temporal stability (ICC 073-0.84; p<0.001) and adequate internal consistency (α=0.97). Conclusions: the instrument proved to be valid and reliable for the studied population.

Item Description

1984-0446
10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0720