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Validation of the Portuguese versions of the nursing students’ perceptions of learning and learner satisfaction with simulation tool
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Background
One of the new methodologies applied to the teaching of nursing is
High-Fidelity Simulation (HFS). This type of simulation allows the
nursing students to develop their clinical practice by using technological
and sophisticated simulators. Recent investigations have studied
the importance of HFS, through the level of perception of
learning and of satisfaction of the students. Since there is a lack of
instruments in Portuguese, we felt the necessity to translate and validate
two evaluation scales of HFS. Objectives: Translate, validate
transculturally and analyse the psychometrics features of two instruments:
“Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Learning using a High-
Fidelity Human Patient Simulator” and the “Learner Satisfaction with
Simulation Tool”.
Methods
A linguistic and cultural translation was conducted with 139 Portuguese
nursing students. Internal consistency reliability and exploratory
factor analysis were performed.
Results
The Scale of Perception of Learning of the Nursing Students about
HFS (SPLNS-HFS) has a Cronbach's Alpha of 0.942 and the Scale of
Satisfaction of the Nursing Students about HFS (SSNS-HFS) of 0.969.
Values of correlation of each item with the SPLNS-HFS are over
0.507, and of the SSNS-HFS over 0.633. The SPLNS-HFS shows a satisfactory
factorial analysis’, with unifactorial structure, and the SSNSHFS
revealed two factors – Utility of Simulation (α = 0.956) and Functionality
of Simulation (α = 0.912).
Conclusions
The Portuguese versions of both scales are psychometrically reliable,
cross-culturally valid, and useful measurement instruments for assessing
the impact of High-Fidelity Simulation in nursing students.
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Keywords
Validation Studies Nursing Students High Fidelity Simulation Personal Satisfaction Learning Perception