<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec><h3>Objective</h3><p>To establish basic data for identifying the level of mental health care competency of general nurses through verification of the reliability and validity of Competency Assessment Tool-Mental Health in the development of a measurement tool for mental health care competency in Korea.</p></sec><sec><h3>Methods</h3><p>This study was conducted on nurses working at general wards, excluding those working at the Department of Psychiatry, in five hospitals with 200 beds or more located in Korea. Content, construct, concurrent validity, and internal consistency of the measurement were confirmed.</p></sec><sec><h3>Results</h3><p>As a result of the construct validity, the section on importance of skills and knowledge for mental health care had 21 items, whereas the section on benefits of additional education had 22 items. The internal consistency of measurement was confirmed as follows: Cronbach's α = 0.96 for the section on importance and 0.96 for the section on benefits section.</p></sec><sec><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This study verified the high validity and reliability of the tool in assessing the mental health care competency of nurses, and it is believed to be significant as basic data for enhancing such competency.</p></sec></abstract>

ObjectiveTo establish basic data for identifying the level of mental health care competency of general nurses through verification of the reliability and validity of Competency Assessment Tool-Mental Health in the development of a measurement tool for mental health care competency in Korea.MethodsThis study was conducted on nurses working at general wards, excluding those working at the Department of Psychiatry, in five hospitals with 200 beds or more located in Korea. Content, construct, concurrent validity, and internal consistency of the measurement were confirmed.ResultsAs a result of the construct validity, the section on importance of skills and knowledge for mental health care had 21 items, whereas the section on benefits of additional education had 22 items. The internal consistency of measurement was confirmed as follows: Cronbach's α = 0.96 for the section on importance and 0.96 for the section on benefits section.ConclusionsThis study verified the high validity and reliability of the tool in assessing the mental health care competency of nurses, and it is believed to be significant as basic data for enhancing such competency.

Validity and reliability of Korean version Competency Assessment Tool-Mental Health

Frontiers of Nursing

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ObjectiveTo establish basic data for identifying the level of mental health care competency of general nurses through verification of the reliability and...

Validity and reliability of Korean version Competency Assessment Tool-Mental Health

Article Category: Original article

Publicado en línea: 14 jul 2020

Páginas: 143 - 152

Recibido: 14 jun 2019

Aceptado: 12 sept 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0017

Palabras clave
competency, mental health, nurse, reliability, validity

© 2020 Hyun Mee Cho et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Validity and reliability of Korean version Competency Assessment Tool-Mental Health

Article Category: Original article

Publicado en línea: 14 jul 2020

Páginas: 143 - 152

Recibido: 14 jun 2019

Aceptado: 12 sept 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0017

Palabras clavecompetency, mental health, nurse, reliability, validity

© 2020 Hyun Mee Cho et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
competency, mental health, nurse, reliability, validity