Özdemir, Selen; Bilgin, Sonay

Background: This study aimed to examine how nursing training provided to parents of asthmatic children affects the child’s quality of life by increasing their awareness of home environment arrangements. Methods: This study, which was conducted using a single-group pre-test post-test design, was conducted in a Training and Study Hospital in a province of Turkey. The study sample consisted of 35 asthmatic children and their parents who were hospitalized in the pediatrics polyclinic and inpatient ward during the pandemic period between March and July 2021. The data were collected with the “Asthmatic Child Information Form,” “Pediatric Ashtma Quality of Life Questionnaire,” and “Home Design Awareness Scale in Children with Asthma.” Frequency, percentage, mean, SD, paired samples t-test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, independent t-test, and Mann–Whitney U-test were used to evaluate the data. Results: The asthmatic children included in the study had sub-dimension and total score averages of the Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire and the published Home Design Awareness Scale in Children with Asthma as pre-test-post-test, and the post-test score averages of all sub-terms after the training (P < .05). Conclusion: It has been observed that the parents’ home design awareness increases, and the children’s quality of life increases with the nursing training given to the parents of asthmatic children to protect them from indoor factors that trigger asthma attacks in their children.

Binay, Şengül Korkmaz; Karakurt, Papatya

Objective: This study aims to adapt the Nurses’ Spiritual Sensitivity Scale (NSSS) into Turkish and to conduct its reliability and validity study. Methods: This methodological study included 267 nurses. The scale was back translated in order to confirm the linguistic equivalence. A Nurse Information Form and the NSSS were administered to these nurses. The opinions of 14 faculty members in the field of nursing were solicited to test the content validity index (CVI). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to establish the validity index and construct validity. Internal consistency analyses were performed with Cronbach’s α coefficients and item analyses. Time invariance (in terms of test–retest reliability) was analyzed to test the reliability of this scale. Fifty-one nurses were subjected to the test‒retest across 4-week intervals to identify the time invariance of the scale. Results: The CVI values of the items ranged from 0.918 to 1. The CFA confirmed the original 2-factor structure of the scale. The Cronbach’s α coefficient was 0.894 for the subscale of nurses’ professional spiritual sensitivity and 0.887 for the subscale of nurses’ inner spiritual sensitivity. Conclusion: The Turkish version of the NSSS is a valid and reliable assessment instrument to assess the spiritual sensitivity of nurses.

Karakurt, Papatya; Köse, Sema; Korkmaz Binay, Şengül

Objective: To determine nurses’ perceptions on patient handover and the factors affecting it. Method: This descriptive study was conducted in a training-research hospital between October and November 2022 with 182 nurses. Research data was collected using the “nurse information form” and “patient handover evaluation scale”. Number, percentage, mean, independent groups t-test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U analyzes were used to evaluate the data. Results: The total mean score of the patient handover evaluation scale of the nurses was 73.36±12.77, the mean score of the quality of information sub-dimension was 33.09±6.06, and the mean score of the interaction and support sub-dimension was 24.78±7.01, mean score of the productivity sub-dimension was 15.48±3.48. It was determined that there was a statistically significant difference between the total score and sub-dimension score averages of the patient handover evaluation scale according to gender, position, working willingly/willingly in the unit, receiving education on patient handover, and having problems with patient handover in the unit (p<0.05). The mean score of the patient handover evaluation scale of female nurses is higher than male, and the difference is statistically significant (p<0.05). The total mean score of the patient handover evaluation scale of the nurses who work happily, who are the nurses in charge, who receive training on patient handover and have no problems with the handover of the shift, is higher than the other nurses (p<0.05). Conclusion: Total mean score of the patient handover evaluation scale of the nurses was high, and factors such as receiving education on patient handover, loving the unit, and the position worked were effective in evaluating patient handover.