A questionnaire development to assess the social representation of nurses in the Basque Country: a psychometric assessment.

Background: Only a few Spanish studies have explored how nurses are seen by society and no validated tools exist for this purpose in the scientific literature.

Objectives: The aim was create and evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a questionnaire that explored the social representation of nursing in social and health care.

Methods: Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to develop the questionnaire and the first version was created based on existing studies.