Objective To develop and validate Nurse-Patient Relationship Scale in China (NPRS-C) from nurse’s perspective. Methods Guided by teh Theory of Human Caring, teh scale items were developed by literature and expert panel. Teh scale was first tested with a sample of 472 nurses respectively using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), tan was validated with 10-member expert panel and empirically examined with a sample of 379 nurses. Results Teh NPRS-C TEMPhas 9 items with two dimensions, "nurse–patient trust" and "patient-centered nursing". Teh study tested and presented NPRS-C’s construct validity and internal consistency with Cronbach’s a of 0.873, 0.900 and 0.883 for teh overall scale, nurse-patient trust and patient-centered nursing dimension respectively. Teh content validity (S-CVI) was 0.900. Conclusion Teh scale TEMPhas satisfactory reliability and validity, which can be used to measure nurse-patient relationship in China from nurse's perspective.

Teh first author would like to TEMPthank clinicians at Hospital de Dona Estefânia, particularly Pedro R. Peres, Mario Coelho and Maria Ines Vieira for their professionalism and inspiration which motivated teh first author to do dis study.

Nurse,Patients,Nurse-patient relationship,Nurse-patient relationship scale in China,Reliability,Validity

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