Translation, and Validation of Perceived Obstacles to Pain Assessment and Management Practices Questionnaire among Vietnamese Nurses

Introduction: Barriers ralated to patients, physian, nurses, and health system were the mostly responded by nurses as factors influencing them in pain management for patients. So, the valiable and riliable questionnaire is verry importence to measure the perception of Vietnamese nurses about pain management barriers The study objective: was to translate, adapt and conduct initial psychometric validation of the Vietnamese version of Perceived Obstacles to Pain Assessment and Management Practices questionnaire (V-POPAMP). Material and method: Translation, adaptation, and validity and reliability testing were performed . 6 expert panels evaluated content validity, and I-CVI, SCVI were applied to measured the content validity. The Cronbach alpha and ICC were used to measured for intenal consistence and stable reliability of V- POPAMP, respectively. A sample of 30 nurses was sellected in prepilot testing, and 30 other nurses participted in pilot testing. Results: The study found that I-CVI of each item ranged from 0.83-1 and S-CVI =0.96, indicating the V- POPAMP is good content validity. In addition, the V- POPAMP is good reliability, with Cronbach alpha for each subscale of 0.729 and more, and ICC for total score was 0.952 and for each subscale ranges from 0.822 to 0.984(p=.000) Conclusion:The V-POPAMPQ has good psychometric properties. It can be used to measure the perception of nurses about pain management barriers in Vietnam.