scholarly journals Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Dutch Families Importance in Nursing Care: Nurses’ Attitudes Scale Based on the Generalized Partial Credit Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. I. Hagedoorn ◽  
W. Paans ◽  
T. Jaarsma ◽  
J. C. Keers ◽  
C. P. van der Schans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Latent Trait ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Partial Credit Model ◽  
Partial Credit ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Online Application ◽  
Generalized Partial Credit Model ◽  
Generalized Partial Credit

The instrument called Families Importance in Nursing Care–Nurses’ Attitudes (FINC-NA) is used to measure nurses’ attitudes toward involving families in their nursing care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the FINC-NA scale in a population of Dutch nurses and add new psychometric information to existing knowledge about this instrument. Using a cross-sectional design, 1,211 nurses received an online application in 2015. Psychometric properties were based on polychoric correlations and the Generalized Partial Credit Model. A total of 597 (49%) nurses responded to the online application. Results confirmed a four-subscale structure. All response categories were utilized, although some ceiling effects occurred. Most items increase monotonically, and the majority of items discriminate well between different latent trait scores of nurses with some items providing more information than others. This study reports the psychometric properties of the Dutch language FINC-NA instrument. New insights into the construct and content of items enable the possibility of a more generic instrument that could be valid across several cultures.

scholarly journals Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version psychometric properties in an Item Response Theory polytomous model

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Corrêa Ferraz ◽  
Fernando de Jesus Moreira Junior ◽  
Fernanda de Vargas ◽  
Fernanda Xavier Hoffmeister ◽  
Gabriel José Chittó Gauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Latent Trait ◽  
Partial Credit Model ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Response Theory ◽  
Generalized Partial Credit Model ◽  
Affective Characteristics ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
Generalized Partial Credit

Abstract This study assessed the applicability of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version in a sample of teenagers confined in socio-educational institutions. Using an Item Response Theory approach, item properties of this instrument were reviewed using the generalized partial credit model. Eight of the original twenty items of the original instrument were discarded due to low discrimination parameters. As expected, the most discriminating items in the assessment of psychiatric traits were those which affective characteristics are more typical in the description of psychopathic traits, and their larger variability among juveniles is reflected in the checklist’s answers. Item anchoring, in turn, determined five anchor levels. Conclusions based on the results are twofold: (a) a shorter version of this measure can offer the same level of information obtained from the full instrument and (b) the measure provides more information on average latent trait levels and is inadequate for clinical use.

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