A scale development study: Hemodialysis comfort scale version II

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dc.contributor.authorKosar Sahin C.
dc.contributor.authorCinar Pakyuz S.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T08:04:14Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T08:04:14Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractAim: Aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable measuring tool in order to evaluate comfort of patients receiving hemodialysis treatment. Background: There has been available a scale developed to evaluate comfort of hemodialysis patients “HDCS (Hemodialysis Comfort Scale).” Due to HDCS consisted of nine items and evaluated comfort in two sub-dimensions, researchers who developed HDCS, stated that number of scale items and dimensions is not sufficient to fully evaluate comfort. Therefore, (Hemodialysis Comfort Scale Version II) HDCS-II was developed with this research and its development process were discussed in this article. Materials and Methods: Sample of this methodological research was consisted of 436 chronic hemodialysis patients, treated at five hemodialysis centers between October 2018 and May 2019. In process of creation item pool, comfort theory and literature was examined. The items in the old scale were also revised and included. Thereby a new question pool of 87 items was created. This draft scale was sent for expert opinion. In validity of scale; content validity index, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used. In reliability study; Item analysis, cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient, parallel form reliability and item analysis based on upper-lower group averages were used. Results: There was consistency between expert views relating to items in scale. According to exploratory factor analysis, scale consisted of six dimensions. Cronbach alpha coefficient of 26-item scale was 0.79. Alpha values of the six factor in scale were, respectively; for physical relief 0.83, for physical ease 0.71, for psychospiritual ease 0.87, for psychospiritual transcendence 0.85, for environmental transcendence 0.82, and for sociocultural ease 0.61. Conclusion: HDCS-II is a 5-point likert type and consists of 26 items and 6 factors. This scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool that can be used to determine comfort of patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment. © The Author(s) 2021.
dc.identifier.DOI-ID10.1177/17449871211041834
dc.identifier.issn17449871
dc.identifier.urihttp://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/12614
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Ltd
dc.rightsAll Open Access; Green Open Access
dc.titleA scale development study: Hemodialysis comfort scale version II
dc.typeArticle

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