Korean J Women Health Nurs.  2020 Jun;26(2):141-150. 10.4069/kjwhn.2020.03.31.1.

Nursing needs assessment scale for women with infertility: development and validation

• Park J
• Shin N
• Lee K

• KMID: 2503631
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2020.03.31.1

Abstract

Purpose
High-quality nursing care must be provided for women with infertility, and their nursing care needs must be identified. Although scales have been developed to assess infertility-related stress, quality of life, and psychosocial status, there is a lack of scales that assess the nursing care needs of women with infertility. The purpose of this study was to develop a needs assessment scale for nursing care in women with infertility and to verify its reliability and validity.
Methods
The 250 subjects in this study were women with infertility recruited from four hospitals. The scale was developed following the framework of DeVellis, through a literature review, in-depth interviews, development of preliminary items, verification of content validity, development of secondary items, verification of construct validity, and extraction of the final items. Date were analyzed using item analysis, factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Pearson correlation coefficients, and Cronbach’s alpha. Reliability was tested using Cronbach’s alpha, and validity was evaluated using item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and criterion validity.
Results
The final version of the nursing care needs assessment scale for woman with infertility consisted of 18 items. Four factors (physical and psychological nursing care needs, needs for information regarding treatment, needs for infertility-related understanding and concern, and supportive needs) explained 66.0% of the total variance. Cronbach’s alpha was .92 for the overall instrument and ranged from .88 to .91 for the subscales.
Conclusion
These results suggest that this needs assessment scale for nursing care in women with infertility demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability and contained items suitable for assessing the level of nursing care needed by women with infertility.

Keyword

Infertility; Instrumentation; Needs assessment; Nursing; Validation study; 간호; 난임, 도구 개발; 요구도 조사; 타당화 연구

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  Figure. 1. Flow of instrument development.

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