The Psychometric Properties of the Persian of Miss Nursing Care Tool among Iranian Nurses
Abstract Background: Miss nursing care, as an important hidden problem, can disrupt nursing function. Hence, it has been identified as a quality index for nursing care and patient safety recently. Therefore, amounts and types of miss nursing care as well as its reasons have to be explored using a quantitative tool. The present study aimed to investigate the features of the localized miss nursing care tool in 2020.Methods: In this methodological study, miss nursing care tool was translated and back-translated and its face and content validity was assessed by a panel of experts. Then, the tool was distributed electronically among 300 nurses with various experiences working in healthcare centers. The construct validity was evaluated via exploratory factor analysis. Its reliability was also explored using Cronbach’s alpha and Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC).Results: This study was conducted on 300 nurses. The exploratory factor analysis, which resulted in the identification of three factors in the second part of the tool, namely relations, financial resources, and human resources, explaining 79.6% of the total variance. The reliability of the first and second parts of the tool was 0.912 and 0.901, respectively. Additionally, the ICC was found to be 0.687 for the first part and 0.706 for the second part of the tool.Conclusion: The Persian version of the miss care tool benefitted from appropriate validity and reliability. Thus, it could be used as an index for evaluation of clinical nursing care.