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

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira,Jacqueline Faria de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Perez,Esperanza Zuriguel, Ferreira,Maria Beatriz Guimarães, Pires,Patricia da Silva, Barichello,Elizabeth, Barbosa,Maria Helena
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672021000200173
• topic: Nursing; Thinking; Nursing Process; Validation Study; Factor Analysis, Statistical

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.