Translation and Validation of a Spanish version of the Kolcaba's General Comfort Questionnaire in Hospital Nurses
@inproceedings{Ferrndiz2015TranslationAV, title={Translation and Validation of a Spanish version of the Kolcaba's General Comfort Questionnaire in Hospital Nurses}, author={Esperanza Ferrer Ferr{\'a}ndiz and David Mart{\'i}n-Baena}, year={2015} }
Background: The General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ), developed by Katharine Kolcaba, has not been validated in any speaking Spanish country, subsequent validation is necessary. Objectives: To translate the General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ) in English language into Spanish (S-GCQ) and to examine the psychometric properties of the S-GCQ. Method: Validation was performed on a randomly selected sample of 600 nurses from eight Valencia and Murcia public hospitals. This study analyzed the…
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