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## Background: There is no comprehensive measure of dimensions describing the nursing relationship that is suitable for use with survey samples and that is focused on nursing particular types of patients. the objective of this study was to develop a measure to investigate significant dimensions of the nurse-patient relationship, the nursing relationship scale (nrs). ## Methods: Hypothetical cases (diabetes or mental illness) in vignette format were presented to 132 psychiatric and 76 general nurses. thirty-four questions about the nurse-patient interaction were asked. principal component analyses (with oblique rotation) were used to identify underlying dimensionality in the correlations of items, combining ratings from the two case vignettes. scales were constructed from the final solution and cronbach's alpha coefficients calculated. subscale score variations were analysed across nurse type and patient type to examine the discriminant validity of the subscales. ## Results: Principal components analysis revealed five dimensions accounting for 52 percent of the variation within items. four 'conceptual' factors were derived. these were labeled caring/supportive approach, nursing sati

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Author

Tan Kan Ku; Harry Minas

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2007-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1752-4458)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)