Adaptation and validation of the Turkish version of the Caring Culture Survey

Abstract

Aim To assess the validity and reliability of the Caring Culture Survey in a sample of Turkish nurses. Background Health care institutions have increased their focus on the caring culture to improve the satisfaction of both employees and patients. However, there is a lack of valid and reliable tools in Turkish that measure nurses’ perceptions of caring culture. Method This two‐phase psychometric study was conducted by recruiting 240 nurses from one university hospital between August and October 2019. In phase 1, the scale's adaptation was implemented. In phase 2, construct validity was determined by confirmatory factor analysis. Reliability was tested by internal consistency and item–total correlation coefficients. Results Adaptation results showed that the Turkish version of the scale is adequate for linguistic and content validation. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a significantly good fit for a three‐factor model. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.84 for the overall scale. Conclusion The Turkish version of the Caring Culture Survey showed consistently acceptable psychometric properties of reliability and validity. Implications for Nursing Management The Turkish version of the Caring Culture Survey can be used as an instrument to assess nurses' perceptions of caring culture by health care and nurse managers.

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“…Gülşen and Kutlu (2021) reported Cronbach's alpha (internal consistency) coefficient of the total scale as 0.84, and the coefficients ranged from 0.67 to 0.91 for the subscales. In this study, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the total scale was 0.84, and the coefficients of the subscales ranged from 0.73 to 0.89.…”

“…Mensik et al (2019) developed the original version of the survey to evaluate the perceptions of healthcare employees toward a caring culture. The Turkish validity and reliability study of the survey was carried out by Gülşen and Kutlu (2021). The survey utilizes a 7-point Likerttype scale (ranging from 1 for never to 7 for every time) that is evaluated through mean scores.…”