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BACKGROUND:Pressure ulcers continue to be a significant problem in hospitals, nursing homes and community care settings. Pressure ulcer incidence is widely accepted as an indicator for the quality of care. Negative attitudes towards pressure ulcer prevention may result in suboptimal preventive care. A reliable and valid instrument to assess attitudes towards pressure ulcer prevention is lacking. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Development and psychometric evaluation of the Attitude towards Pressure ulcer Prevention instrument (APuP). DESIGN:Prospective psychometric instrument validation study. METHODS:A literature review was performed to design the instrument. Content validity was evaluated by nine European pressure ulcer experts and five experts in psychometric instrument validation in a double Delphi procedure. A convenience sample of 258 nurses and 291 nursing students from Belgium and The Netherlands participated in order to evaluate construct validity and stability reliability of the instrument. The data were collected between February and May 2008. RESULTS:A factor analysis indicated the construct of a 13 item instrument in a five factor solution: (1) attitude towards personal competency to prevent pressure ulcers (three items); (2) attitude towards the priority of pressure ulcer prevention (three items); (3) attitude towards the impact of pressure ulcers (three items); (4) attitude towards personal responsibility in pressure ulcer prevention (two items); and (5) attitude towards confidence in the effectiveness of prevention (two items). This five factor solution accounted for 61.4% of the variance in responses related to attitudes towards pressure ulcer prevention. All items demonstrated factor loadings over 0.60. The instrument produced similar results during stability testing [ICC=0.88 (95% CI=0.84-0.91, P<0.001)]. For the total instrument, the internal consistency (Cronbachs alpha) was 0.79. CONCLUSION:The APuP is a psychometrically sound instrument that can be used to effectively assess attitudes towards pressure ulcer prevention in patient care, education, and research. In further research, the association between attitude, knowledge and clinical performance should be explored.
journal_name
Int J Nurs Studjournal_title
International journal of nursing studiesauthors
Beeckman D,Defloor T,Demarré L,Van Hecke A,Vanderwee Kdoi
10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2010.04.004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-11-01 00:00:00pages
1432-41issue
11eissn
0020-7489issn
1873-491Xpii
S0020-7489(10)00145-8journal_volume
47pub_type
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