Abstract
Background: Fatigue as nursing diagnosis is a common phenomenon in patient undertaking haemodialysis. There is, however, no clear instrument to measure the clinical indicators of this nursing diagnosis. Objectives: To measure the validity and reliability an instrument to measure clinical indicator in nursing diagnosis fatigue. Methods: Content Validity Index for Scale (S-CVI) and Point-Biserial Correlation were used to measure the validity of instrument. Cronbach Alpha Reliability was used for reliability of 72 patients undertaking haemodialysis. Results: S-CVI score was 1 on relevance, accuracy and clarity, 0.98 on simplicity and ambiguity. The Cronbach’s Alpha of the instrument was 0.675 which was considered reliable. Conclusion: The instrument to measure clinical indicators of nursing diagnoses fatigue has acceptable validity and reliability score in Indonesian, and it is recommended to be used in clinical setting.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 350-355 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Belitung Nursing Journal |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Fatigue
- Haemodialysis
- Reliability
- Validity