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Development of the Nurse Attitude Scale short form: Factor analysis in a large sample of Japanese psychiatric clinical staff
Author(s) -
Katsuki Fujika,
Fukui Satoe,
Niekawa Nobuyuki,
Oshima Iwao,
Setoya Nozomi,
Ninomiya Shiori,
Moriyama Akiko,
Uchino Toshiro,
Ito Junichiro,
Tsukada Kazumi
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01803.x
Subject(s) - sample (material) , scale (ratio) , psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics
The Nurse Attitude Scale (NAS) measures nurses' Expressed Emotion. A short form of the NAS was developed and its reliability and validity examined. After performing factor analysis using 1252 samples, three factors were extracted. Cronbach's α for individual subscales was 0.852 for Hostility, 0.846 for Criticism and 0.645 for Positive Remarks. There was a significant correlation between individual subscales in the NAS short form and corresponding subscale in the Maslach Burnout Inventory ( P < 0.001). The NAS short form seems to have acceptable reliability and validity.