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Development of the Nurse Attitude Scale short form: Factor analysis in a large sample of Japanese psychiatric clinical staff

  1. Fujika Katsuki rn , phd1,*,
  2. Satoe Fukui cp , phd2,
  3. Nobuyuki Niekawa ma 3,
  4. Iwao Oshima phd4,
  5. Nozomi Setoya rn , phd5,
  6. Shiori Ninomiya2,
  7. Akiko Moriyama ma 6,
  8. Toshiro Uchino md 8,
  9. Junichiro Ito md , phd7,
  10. Kazumi Tsukada md , phd9

Article first published online: 28 JUN 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01803.x

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Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volume 62, Issue 3, pages 349–351, June 2008

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Katsuki, F., Fukui, S., Niekawa, N., Oshima, I., Setoya, N., Ninomiya, S., Moriyama, A., Uchino, T., Ito, J. and Tsukada, K. (2008), Development of the Nurse Attitude Scale short form: Factor analysis in a large sample of Japanese psychiatric clinical staff. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 62: 349–351. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01803.x

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  1. 1

    School of Nursing, Nagoya City University, Nagoya,

  2. 2

    Department of Educational Psychology, Tokyo Gakugei University,

  3. 3

    Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo,

  4. 4

    Japan College of Social Work,

  5. 5

    St. Luke's College of Nursing,

  6. 6

    Psychiatric Day Hospital, Rehabilitation Service, The University of Tokyo Hospital,

  7. 7

    National Institute of Mental Health, NCNP, Tokyo,

  8. 8

    Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, and

  9. 9

    Kohnodai Hospital, NCNP, Chiba, Japan

* *Fujika Katsuki, RN, PhD, School of Nursing, Nagoya City University, 1 Kawazumi, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan. Email: katsuki@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 28 JUN 2008
  2. Article first published online: 28 JUN 2008
  3. Received 11 July 2007; revised 18 December 2007; accepted 22 December 2007.

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Keywords:

  • Expressed Emotion;
  • Family Attitude Scale;
  • Nurse Attitude Scale

The Nurse Attitude Scale (NAS) measures nurses' Expressed Emotion. A short form of the NAS was developed and its reliability and validity examined. After performing factor analysis using 1252 samples, three factors were extracted. Cronbach's α for individual subscales was 0.852 for Hostility, 0.846 for Criticism and 0.645 for Positive Remarks. There was a significant correlation between individual subscales in the NAS short form and corresponding subscale in the Maslach Burnout Inventory (P < 0.001). The NAS short form seems to have acceptable reliability and validity.

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