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Chinese Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing ›› 2025, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (3): 317-322.doi: 10.3761/j.issn.2096-7446.2025.03.009

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Development and testing the reliability and validity of the Knowledge,Attitude,and Practice(KAP) Questionnaire for the Nursing Care of Vasoactive Agents Infusions

CHEN Yi(), FANG Yaping, MOU Junjie, AI Zhongping, SU Zhonglin, LIU Dan, ZHU Dairong, LIU Li, HUANG Yanfang()   

  1. Intensive Care Medicine Department of Southwest Medical University Affiliated Hospital,Luzhou,646000,China
  • Received:2024-07-04 Online:2025-03-10 Published:2025-03-03

Abstract:

Objective To develop and test the reliability and validity of a Knowledge,Attitude,and Practice (KAP) Questionnaire for the Nursing Care of Vasoactive Agents Infusions. Methods Using the KAP theory framework,an initial questionnaire was developed through literature review,expert panel,item analysis,and a pilot survey. A convenience sample was used to select 239 clinical nurses specializing in critical care and cardiovascular nursing from six tertiary and three secondary hospitals in Sichuan Province from February to June 2024. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were tested. Additionally,20 participants were re-surveyed two weeks after the initial round to gather test-retest reliability data. Results The final questionnaire comprised 33 items under three dimensions,including 15 items on knowledge,5 on attitude and 13 on practice. Exploratory factor analysis(EFA) showed that the cumulative variance contribution rate of the three common factors was 78.03%,with item loadings ranging from 0.56 to 0.89. The item-level content validity index(I-CVI) ranged from 0.91 to 1.00,and the scale-level content validity index(S-CVI/Ave) was 0.98. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the entire questionnaire was 0.974,with each dimension’s Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.965 to 0.979. The intraclass correlation coefficient(ICC) for test-retest reliability was 0.889 for the entire questionnaire,and it ranged from 0.890 to 0.989 for each dimension. Conclusion The KAP Questionnaire for the Nursing Care of Vasoactive Agents Infusions demonstrates excellent reliability and validity,making it a suitable tool for assessing clinical nurses’ knowledge,attitudes,and practices regarding the nursing care of vasoactive agents infusions.

Key words: Vasoactive Agents, Nursing Care, Theory of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice, Questionnaire, Reliability, Validity