Background: There is a new technological paradigm in health care which has been reinforced following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Technological innovations create both challenges and opportunities to which citizens, healthcare professionals, and healthcare organisations must adapt to this reality. Although most health services have charters of citizens' general rights and commitments, there is no specific charter concerning eHealth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To validate the content of the "Health Literacy Behaviour" nursing outcome (NO).
Methods: A content validation study was conducted during 2022. Each indicator was included in the NO, and its response levels were operationally defined.
Background: The Work Ability Index (WAI) is an instrument that measures work ability. The wide dispersion of the WAI internationally has led to its adaptation for use in different countries. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the WAI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To determine the prevalence and clustering of NANDA-International nursing diagnoses in patients assisted by pre-hospital emergency teams.
Design: Retrospective descriptive study of electronic record review.
Methods: Episodes recorded during 2019, including at least a nursing diagnosis, were recovered from the electronic health records of a Spanish public emergency agency (N = 28,847).
Purpose: To identify clusters of beliefs about nursing diagnosis (ND) among Romanian hospital nurses and to ascertain variations in attitudes, intention to use, behavior associated with the use of ND, and sociodemographic characteristics.
Methods: A cross-sectional online survey study was conducted on a convenience sample of 498 hospital nurses in Romania. The questionnaire comprises six scales measuring normative, behavioral, and control beliefs, intention to use, attitudes, and behavior toward ND.
Purpose: The aim of this study is to design and validate the content of an instrument based on the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) "Knowledge: disease process" and "Risk control: hypertension" to measure pregnant women's knowledge and self-care behaviors about hypertensive disorders.
Methods: The study was carried out in three phases: (a) content validity of the indicators, (b) construction, and (c) content validity of the instrument.
Findings: The instrument contains 72 items with an average content validity ratio and representativeness of 0.
Digit Health
June 2023
Objective: To provide practical information regarding needs, preferences of content and format of an app to assist the self-management in patients with multi-morbidity and heart failure (HF).
Methods: The three-phase study was conducted in Spain. Six integrative reviews, a qualitative methodology based on Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology through semi-structured interviews and user stories were used.
JMIR Res Protoc
December 2022
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adv Nurs
October 2022
Aim: To determine the prevalence of NANDA International nursing diagnoses in the coping/stress tolerance domain and their linkages to Nursing Outcomes Classification outcomes and Nursing Interventions Classification interventions in the pre-hospital emergency care setting.
Design: Retrospective descriptive study of electronic record review.
Methods: Eight thousand three hundred three episodes recorded during the year 2019 were recovered from the electronic health records of a public emergency care agency.
JMIR Res Protoc
April 2022
Background: Patients with multimorbidity and complex health needs are defined as a priority by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union. There is a need to develop appropriate strategies with effective measures to meet the challenge of chronicity, reorienting national health systems. The increasing expansion of mobile health (mHealth) interventions in patient communication, the reduction of health inequalities, improved access to health care resources, adherence to treatment, and self-care of chronic diseases all point to an optimistic outlook.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealthcare professionals often use multimedia patient education media, but not all have the same content quality. This study aimed to cross-culturally adapt the Educational Content Validation Instrument in Health to the Spanish setting and assess its psychometric properties. A methodological validation study was carried out between January and September 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMental health nurses, together with psychiatrists, are the healthcare professionals who display the highest levels of empathy and the best attitudes towards patients with mental disorders. However, burnout is a common problem among these professionals. The aim of our study is to describe the association between empathy, burnout, and attitudes towards patients with mental disorders among mental health nurses in Spain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To estimate the worldwide pooled prevalence of inadequate work ability among hospital nursing personnel using the Work Ability Index (WAI).
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Methods: A systematic search was conducted on Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Scielo, PsychInfo, CINAHL, Nursing and Allied Health, LILACS, and Google Scholar from inception to July 2021 to identify observational studies on work ability among hospital nursing personnel using the WAI.
Purpose: To develop a preliminary clinical validation the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis "Grieving" in cases of perinatal loss.
Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study using the Fehring model.
Findings: The overall clinical validity index for the diagnosis was 0.
Int J Nurs Knowl
January 2021
Purpose: To determine the psychometric properties of the CoNOCidiet-Diabetes, a new instrument based on nursing outcome "Knowledge: prescribed diet."
Methods: Methodological design. The participant were 359 patients diagnosed with diabetes visiting 27 primary healthcare centers in Spain.
Purpose: To construct a questionnaire for measuring knowledge of a diabetic diet and validate its contents.
Methods: This study was carried out in three stages: (a) generation of items, (b) apparent and content validation, (c) cognitive pilot test.
Findings: An 88-item questionnaire was obtained with a content validity index and a representativeness index of 0.
Purpose: To validate the content of the NANDA-I diagnosis "death anxiety" (00147).
Methods: Descriptive study using the Fehring model with 202 Spanish nurses who were expert in end-of-life care to explore the adequacy of the components of the NANDA-I diagnosis "death anxiety" (00147) in the Spanish edition.
Findings: None of the diagnosis definitions were considered as representative.
J Nurs Manag
January 2019
Aim: To identify clusters of nurses in relation to the utilisation and attitude towards nursing diagnosis and to compare their profiles considering demographics, professional characteristics and nursing practice environments.
Background: Nursing diagnosis has benefits for both patients and nurses, and the attitude of nurses towards nursing diagnosis has been proposed as a determinant of its use. Therefore, an adequate understanding of nurses' attitude and utilisation profiles regarding nursing diagnosis is essential for the nursing managers who want to adopt nursing diagnosis as a practice framework.
Background: The evaluation of the level of clinical competence acquired by the student is a complex process that must meet various requirements to ensure its quality. The psychometric analysis of the data collected by the assessment tools used is a fundamental aspect to guarantee the student's competence level.
Aim: To conduct a psychometric analysis of an instrument which assesses clinical competence in nursing students at simulation stations with standardized patients in OSCE-format tests.
Aims: To identify clusters of nurses in relation to their beliefs about nursing diagnosis among two populations (Italian and Spanish); to investigate differences among clusters of nurses in each population considering the nurses' socio-demographic data, attitudes towards nursing diagnosis, intentions to make nursing diagnosis and actual behaviours in making nursing diagnosis.
Background: Nurses' beliefs concerning nursing diagnosis can influence its use in practice but this is still unclear.
Design: A cross-sectional design.
Int J Nurs Knowl
April 2017
Purpose: To develop and psychometrically evaluate a questionnaire based on the outcome "Knowledge: Breast-feeding" of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) to determine the knowledge of parents on breast-feeding.
Background: The NOC outcome "Knowledge: Breast-feeding" allows for nurses/midwives to assess the efficacy of interventions aimed to improve the knowledge on breast-feeding in parents thought the clinical interview/observation. However, the use of self-administered questionnaires by patients could facilitate its evaluation.
Blogging within the health profession has grown in the recent past. This article aims to perform an analysis of the theoretical aspects of blogging, the use by professional nurses and students, benefits for patients, and, finally, an approach to the activities of Spanish nursing blogs. Blogs have great advantages as social communication tools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Positions on Nursing Diagnosis (PND) is a scale that uses the semantic differential technique to measure nurses' attitudes towards the nursing diagnosis concept. The aim of this study was to develop a shortened form of the Spanish version of this scale and evaluate its psychometric properties and efficiency. A double theoretical-empirical approach was used to obtain a short form of the PND, the PND-7-SV, which would be equivalent to the original.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To validate the content of the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis of grieving in situations of perinatal loss.
Methods: Using the Fehring's model, 208 Spanish experts were asked to assess the adequacy of the defining characteristics and other manifestations identified in the literature for cases of perinatal loss.
Findings: The content validity index was 0.