The Nursing Needs Assessment Scale for Women with Infertility: Turkish Validity and Reliability Study

Year 2024, Volume: 14 Issue: 4, 1048 - 1055, 29.12.2024

Tugba Bozdemir , Hatice Yıldız , Jummi Park

https://doi.org/10.33808/clinexphealthsci.1481793

Abstract

Objective: This study was designed and conducted to establish the Turkish validity and reliability of “The Nursing Needs Assessment Scale for Women with Infertility (NNASIW).”
Methods: Originally developed in Korean, the scale contains 18 items, and a sample of 262 infertile women was included, multiplying each item by 10. In the analysis of this methodological study, second-order multifactor Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), independent samples t-test, split-half reliability analysis, and Cronbach’s alpha were utilized.
Results: The CFA goodness-of-fit values of the scale were: χ² = 221.326, χ²/df = 1.72, AGFI = .89, CFI = .98, GFI = .91, RMSEA = .052, and NFI = .96. Factor loadings for all variables ranged from .39 to .99, and they were found to contribute significantly to the scale (p<.001). Statistically significant differences were noted between the lower and upper 27% groups for the total score and sub-dimensions of the scale, which originally had four sub-dimensions (p < .001). A high, positive, and significant correlation was found between the two halves of the scale (p <.001). The overall Cronbach’s alpha value of the scale was 0.88, with sub-dimension alpha values ranging between .70 and .99.
Conclusion: The NNASIW is confirmed to be a valid and reliable measurement tool for assessing the nursing needs of infertile women.

Keywords

Infertility , nursing , care needs , scale , validity , reability

Ethical Statement

This study was approved by Ethics Committee of MaltepeUniversity, Noninvasive Clinic Ethics Committee (Approval date: 05.02.2021; Number: 2021/04-07)

Supporting Institution

The authors received no financial support for the research

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