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Reliability and Validity of the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist in T urkish
Author(s) -
Kose Gulsah,
Bolu Abdullah,
Ozdemir Leyla,
Acikel Cengizhan,
Hatipolu Sevgi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of nursing knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2047-3095
pISSN - 2047-3087
DOI - 10.1111/2047-3095.12090
Subject(s) - checklist , delirium , cronbach's alpha , intensive care , medicine , intensive care unit , reliability (semiconductor) , nursing , intensive care medicine , psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , cognitive psychology
Purpose The aim was to investigate and evaluate validity and reliability of the I ntensive C are D elirium S creening C hecklist ( ICDSC ) in T urkey. Methods A cross‐sectional study design was used. Fifty‐nine patients in an intensive care unit for longer than 24 hr were included in this study. Results C ronbach's alpha coefficient indicated that the ICDSC was a reliable test with high internal consistency (specialist nurse min: 0.720, max: 0.855; primary nurse min: 0.728, max: 0.830). The sensitivity and specifity were high. Conclusion The findings showed that the sensitivity and specificity of the ICDSC are high for T urkish patients. Implications for Nursing Practice The ICDSC provides fast and effective evaluations of the patients for delirium. So, ICDSC may be easily integrated into routine nursing practice.