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Misurare la percezione di caring in pazienti e infermieri: validazione italiana del Caring Behaviors Inventory (CBIta).
No full textIl caring è concetto chiave dell’assistenza infermieristica e la sua espressione nell’assistenza può modificare esiti di qualità nei servizi sanitari, come la soddisfazione del paziente, e migliorare esiti organizzativi come i tassi di turnover e il benessere degli operatori sanitari.
Il Caring Behaviors Inventory è uno strumento diffuso e validato a livello internazionale che valuta la percezione di caring ricevuto e erogato, rispettivamente, da pazienti e infermieri. Questo studio presenta il processo di validazione italiana della versione a 24 item del Caring Behaviors Inventory (CBI-24) in un campione di pazienti e infermieri in contesti chirurgici. La validità di contenuto della versione italiana dello strumento è stata garantita mediante processo di forward-backward translation. Lo strumento è stato somministrato ad un campione di 213 pazienti (tasso di risposta 88%) e 178 infemieri (tasso di risposta 95%), mostrando valori di affidabilità (α di Cronbach), rispettivamente, di 0.94 e 0.92. L’analisi fattoriale confermativa suggerisce la validità del modello a 4 fattori. La versione italiana dello strumento può essere considerata valida e affidabile. Gli elevati tassi di risposta indicano inoltre alti livelli di accettabilità da parte di pazienti e infermieri e suggeriscono la sua fruibilità per una valutazione sistematica dell’assistenza nei contesti clinici e lo studio degli antecedenti del turnover e del benessere organizzativo
Challenges and opportunities in health care and nursing management research in times of COVID-19 outbreak
No full textAim: To reflect upon the concrete implications of the COVID-19 outbreak regarding ongoing health service and nursing management research (NMR) and to identify possible research priorities for the current and post-pandemic era. Background: Health service research and the nursing management research debate have received little attention to date, despite their relevance in responding to the increased demand of care during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: A critical analysis on experiences was performed while leading international-funded studies at different degrees of complexity and targets, involving nurse managers, nurses, care processes and health care services in the last year. Results: Ongoing research projects have been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in their aims, methods, management processes, feasibility and outcomes. Conclusions: The COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented stress test for the health care sector and for the nursing services. Its onset and persistence have rendered more easily to see what prevails in terms of effectiveness and what fails in our health care services. Implications for Nursing Management: Nurse managers have lived and are still living through this crisis, given their omnipresence in the health care systems. Therefore, setting NMR priorities and working together to imagine and design the post-COVID-19 era is essential
Misurare la soddisfazione del paziente: validazione della versione italiana della Patient Satisfaction Scale
No full textLa soddisfazione del paziente costituisce un outcome importante dei servizi sanitari ed è in larga parte determinato dall'assistenza infermieristica erogata e da come questa è percepita dal paziente. In letteratura sono documentati numerosi strumenti per misurare la soddisfazione del paziente ricoverato. Questo studio documenta il processo di validazione della Patient Satisfaction Scale diffusa in numerosi paesi Europei. La validità di contenuto della versione italiana dello strumento è stata garantita mediante processo di forward-backward translation che ha verificato l'equivalenza semantica con la versione originale. Lo strumento è stato compilato da 220 (91%) pazienti chirurgici e ha verificato l'assunto di variabilità di risposta delle scale Likert; inoltre, ha mostrato elevati livelli di affidabilità (α di Cronbach 0.93). La versione italiana della PSS può essere considerata valida e affidabile. Gli elevati tassi di risposta e i tempi di compilazione contenuti sono suggestivi, inoltre, per una buona fruibilità nei contesti clinici
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Quali sono le ragioni delle Missed Care? Risultato di uno studio bilaterale. Ragioni delle Missed Care
No full textEvidence of missed nursing care in clinical practice has been well documented; however, fewer studies highlighting why care is missed have been conducted and this prevents effective interventions aimed at minimizing the missed care
Quali sono le ragioni delle Missed Care? Risultato di uno studio bilaterale. Ragioni delle Missed Care
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Measurement tools used to assess unfinished nursing care: A systematic review of psychometric properties
No full textBackground: Different tools have been developed and validated to measure unfinished nursing care. However, no systematic review of the psychometric properties has been performed describing the quality of the methods used to estimate their validity. Aims: (a) To identify tools measuring unfinished nursing care that have undergone validation processes; (b) to evaluate critically the quality of the methods used in ascertaining their psychometric properties; and (c) to compare the estimated psychometric properties of these tools. Design: A systematic review of the psychometric properties also evaluating their methodological quality was performed by following the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) guideline for systematic reviews. Data sources: The databases Medline, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PubMed, Google and Google Scholar were searched up to 30 June 2018. Review methods: Data extraction was performed following the predetermined eligibility criteria. Eight properties and their methodological quality were assessed using the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments criteria. Results: A total of 20 studies reported validation data regarding three family of tools: the Missed Care Survey (MISSCARE), the Basal Extent of Rationing of Nursing Care (BERNCA) and the Task Undone scale (TU-7). The most estimated psychometric properties across studies were internal consistency, followed by structural validity, content validity, and cross-cultural validity. The less evaluated psychometric properties were reliability, hypothesis testing and convergent and criterion validity. Conclusion: The psychometric properties of the investigated tools showed a more than acceptable quality, as did the methodologies used to estimate these properties. Impact: The MISSCARE survey is the most widely used tool validated across countries to date. Evaluating the concurrent reliability of the tools available is strongly recommended to assess their effectiveness in measuring the same phenomenon
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
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