The development and the reliability and validity test of the satisfaction evaluation questionnaire about humanistic caring of head-nurses to nurses

Objective In order to provide evidence for researches related to evaluating the humanistic caring ability of head-nurses, we developed the questionnaire and launched reliability and validity test for it. Methods Through analyzing in documents, theories and scales, launching a 2-round experts consultation for 19 experts, the questionnaire consists of 3 first-class indicators, 8 second-class indicators and 36 third-class indicators. A total of 217 nurses, from third-grade class-A hospital who had a more than 5-year clinical experience, were selected by convenient sampling. Finally, the reliability and validity of the questionnaire had been summarized. Results The Cronbach α was 0.937 for the total questionnaire and 0.743-0.898 for each sub-scales. The split half reliability coefficient for the total questionnaire was 0.801 and 0.748-8.872 for each sub-scales. Test result of questionnaire content validity demonstrate the CVI was 0.91 for the total factors and 0.83-1.00 for each factor.Through exploratory factor analysis, 8 common factors were abstracted and cumulative variance contribution rate was 65.852%. Conclusions The questionnaire, developed for evaluating the humanistic caring ability of head-nurses, shows acceptable reliability and validity, and it's worth to be popularizing and using in future. Key words: Head-nurses; Humanistic caring; Evaluate; Reliability; Validity