Cross-cultural adaptation of the Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale for nurse in emergency department
Article Category: Original article
Published Online: Jul 10, 2019
Page range: 107 - 114
Received: Jul 24, 2018
Accepted: Sep 29, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/FON-2019-0016
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Objective
To follow the guidelines of intercultural adaptation provided by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) Evidence-Based Medicine Committee, translating the original scale and evaluating the reliability and validity, and then to compile the Chinese version of the Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale (MAVAS) for nurses in emergency room in the mainland of China.
Methods
This study consists of two phases of testing: (1) translation: forward translation, synthesis, back translation, expert committee review, and pretesting; (2) psychometric properties: content and construct validity, internal consistency, and test–retest reliability.
Results
The Chinese version of MAVAS and the original version showed excellent similarities and equivalence. The average Scale-level Content Validity Index was 0.904, and the Item-level Content Validity Index ranged from 0.80 to 1.00. The construct validity was tested using confirmatory factor analysis by LISREL 8.7; χ2/
Conclusions
The Chinese version of MAVAS had an excellent feasibility. It was found to be a valid and reliable tool to assess nurses’ attitude toward patients’ violence in emergency department.