Publications by authors named "Roelant Claerhout"
Article Synopsis
- A Dutch version of the Nurses' Moral Courage Scale was created from the original English scale to assess self-reported moral courage among nurses in Flanders, Belgium.
- A pilot study was conducted for readability, with data from 559 nurses showing high internal consistency and a mean score of 3.77.
- Factors such as age, experience, job role, education level, and personal interest were significantly associated with nurses' perceived moral courage.
Background: Moral courage as a part of nurses' moral competence has gained increasing interest as a means to strengthen nurses acting on their moral decisions and offering alleviation to their moral distress. To measure and assess nurses' moral courage, the development of culturally and internationally validated instruments is needed.
Objective: The objective of this study was to validate the Dutch-language version of the four-component Nurses' Moral Courage Scale originally developed and validated in Finnish data.