Validation Instrument Measuring FS-ICU on Satisfaction Care Malay Language Version Among Relatives at the Intensive Care Unit in Public Hospitals

The aim of this study is to measure the reliability and validity of the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) Malay language version of family member’s satisfaction with care (19 items) during their stay at the intensive care units. A cross sectional study was conducted among 196 respondents. The self-administered FS-ICU comprises of three domains with a total of 19 items. Descriptive analysis, Cronbach’s alpha and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) were performed on the Malay language version of FS-ICU. The final model EFA on the Malay language version of the FS-ICU indicated Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity was significant (Chi Square= 2321.013, p value <0.000) and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was 0.878. The EFA procedure has grouped 19 items into three domains, whereby one of the items from domain 3 was deleted since it failed to achieve the minimum requirement for factor loading of 0.6 and only 18 items were retained. The Cronbach’s alpha analysis of each domain in the FS-ICU exceeded the threshold value of 0.6. The study concluded that the instruments measuring the construct in this study has achieved the internal validity. Keywords: validity, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, FS-ICU-M, satisfaction, family members