Open AccessDevelopment and reliability testing of the Scale for the Evaluation of Staff‐Patient Interactions in Progress Notes ( SESPI ): An assessment instrument of mental health nursing documentation
Author(s) -
Myklebust Kjellaug K.,
Bjørkly Stål
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nursing open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2054-1058
DOI - 10.1002/nop2.254
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , attunement , documentation , mental health , reliability (semiconductor) , scale (ratio) , psychology , test (biology) , internal consistency , nursing , consistency (knowledge bases) , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , psychometrics , clinical psychology , computer science , psychiatry , alternative medicine , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , pathology , programming language , artificial intelligence , quantum mechanics , biology
Abstract Aim To develop and test the reliability of the Scale for the Evaluation of Staff‐Patient Interactions in Progress Notes ( SESPI ). Therapeutic nurse–patient interactions are fundamental in mental health nursing. However, little is known about how these interactions are recorded in nursing documentation and there is no instrument available for collecting this type of information for quantitative analysis. Design Instrument development and reliability testing. Methods The development of the SESPI was based on qualitative analyses of progress notes retrieved from patient records in two mental health services. A self psychological attunement perspective guided the analyses. SESPI was tested for internal consistency and inter‐rater reliability after 22 nurses independently scored 10 progress notes. Results Cronbach's alpha for the entire instrument was 0.977, indicating that the raters' scores had very high internal consistency. ICC was 0.770. The alpha and ICC values for each step were high, varying between 0.970 and 0.992.