Open AccessPsychometric Properties of Nursing Delirium Screening Scale in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Units
Author(s) -
Zohreh Amirajam,
Elham Asadi-Noran,
Behnam Molaei,
Vahid Adiban,
Mehdi Heidarzadeh,
Mohammad Hassanpour-Darghah
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of critical care medicine/indian journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-359X
pISSN - 0972-5229
DOI - 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23853
Subject(s) - delirium , medicine , criterion validity , content validity , intensive care unit , scale (ratio) , intensive care , nursing care , psychometrics , internal consistency , nursing , emergency medicine , psychiatry , clinical psychology , intensive care medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
Nursing Delirium Screening Scale (Nu-DESC) is a new instrument for determining delirium by nurses. The study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of Nu-DESC and determined the sensitivity and specificity of it.