The Reliability and Validity of the Chinese Version Perceived Professional Labor Support Tool in Taiwanese Women

• Main Authors: Ying-Chien Chen, 陳瑩倢
• Other Authors: Pi-Chao Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16804267977188388705

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 護理研究所 === 102 === Women are provided labor support during delivery, can improve outcomes for mothers and babies, increase women’s adaptive capacity, and have positive and satisfying birth experience. In order for nursing to remain as a viable profession, nurses，competence is highly important to promote positive outcomes for mothers and babies.The testing tools of labor support were developed based upon the model of social support in Taiwanese clinical practice, and do not reflect the full range of professional labor support , and lack of evaluation that competence connotation of providing labor support for nurses .In light of this, it is highly important to develop, and easy-to-use testing tool that measures mothers，perceptions of professional labor support provided by the registered nurse during labor.Therefore, the purpose of this study was to employ the Bowers''s PPLST to translate into chinese and to assess the reliability and validity of the chinese version Perceived Professional Labor Support Tool , and apply to Taiwanese women. This study used questionnaires, 240 subjects was selected by convenience sampling in the obstetrics and gynecology ward of a central medical center, testing the chinese version Perceived Professional Labor Support Tool. Applied the SPSS 17.0 statistical software package for data collection and analysis, and used content validity, factor analysis, concurrent validity, internal consistency reliability, and test-retest reliability to test the reliability and validity of the chinese version Perceived Professional Labor Support Tool. This study results display that Its CVI was .95, and factor analysis found five factors, “Nursing Competency”, “concern needs”, “Communication –to pass information”, “physical and psychological comfort”, and“convey caring”, to account for 64.27% of the total variance. Its Cronbach''s αwas.95, and test-retest reliability coefficient was.88 in the one-to-two weeks. The five factors, its Cronbach''s α ranged from .75~.93, and test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from .78 ~. 87. Overall, this study results suggest that the psychometric properties of the the Chinese Version Perceived Professional Labor Support Tool has a good reliability and validity, may be apply to assess the women''s perceptions of the professional labor support in Taiwanese. In the future, this study can help healthcare professional staffs to understand the status of labor support, as a basis of the in-service education of Labor Support for obstetric nurses, and to increase the quality of obstetric care.