Design and psychometric properties of an instrument to assess metacognition in moral reasoning in medicine

This study was conducted in two phases; identifying the items and designing the instrument. In the preliminary phase, the qualitative study was carried out using conventional content analysis method. In the second phase, psychometric evaluation of instrument was done using face and content validity, construct validity and reliability.ResultsOn the first phase of this study, 135 items were identified. After determining face and content validity, 111 items reached the stage of exploratory factor analysis. This instrumental analysis indicated the existence of 74 items and ten factors whose variance of the total is explained as 46.883%. Cronbach's alpha value was 0/75. And the intra ‐cluster correlation coefficient was 0.808.

Source: Nursing Open - July 25, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Farahnaz Kamali, Alireza Yousefy, Nikoo Yamani Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research