Duarte, Hugo Miguel SantosDixe, Maria dos AnjosSousa, Pedro Miguel Lopes2018-08-022018-08-022016http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/3413Background 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.engValidation StudiesNursing StudentsHigh Fidelity SimulationPersonal SatisfactionLearning Perceptionjournal article10.1186/s12913-016-1423-5