Construction of medical narrative ability scale for hospice care personnel
FANG Ying
WANG Xiaolin
XU Lan
FAN Haiwa
YAN Yiting
LI Panyu
ZHANG Yunfeng
Abstract：Objective:To develop a scale to evaluate the medical narrative ability of hospice care personnel,and to test its reliability and validity.Methods:Guided by the theory of narrative medicine and the specific practice of hospice care,combined with literature analysis and qualitative interview results,the item pool of the scale was constructed.The first version of the scale was formed through on-site expert Delphi consultation.A questionnaire survey was conducted among 324 persons who carried out hospice care and narrative medicine/nursing services to test the reliability and validity of the scale.Results:The medical narrative ability scale for hospice staff included two dimensions,which were response focus and reflective representation,and 21 items,they could explain 78.626％of the total variance.Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.978,and Cronbach's α coefficientof each dimension were above 0.9,the correlation coefficients of the scale and each dimension were 0.916-0.973,and the dimensions and total scores of the scale were positively correlated with the scores of the Caring Ability Inventory(P<0.01).Conclusion:The structure of medical narrative ability of hospice care personnel formed in this study is reasonable and ti has good reliability and validity.It is suitable for the evaluation of medical narrative ability of hospice care personnel.
Keywords：hospice carenarrative medicineassessment toolDelphi methodnursing staffnarrative ability
Publication Date：2024-01-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 51-55 )