The psychometric properties of instruments measuring ethical sensitivity in nursing: a systematic review
Lu Zhou, LiXiong Bi, YuMing Wu, Lei Wang, Gao Liu, EnLi Cai · 2024
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Lu Zhou and co-authors grade the questionnaires that claim to measure nurses' ethical sensitivity, the knack of noticing the moral weight in a care situation. Poorly built tools make research on ethics education hard to trust. Their 2024 systematic review searched six databases and judged each instrument against the COSMIN checklist, the field's standard for measurement quality.
Twenty-nine studies described eleven different instruments. Each tool's properties, such as consistency and validity, were rated, and the evidence behind each rating was graded with a standard scheme. The reviewers' aim is practical: help researchers and managers pick the least flawed instrument for their setting instead of the most cited. Their paper maps a crowded shelf of similar scales and shows how thin the proof is under many of them, a warning for anyone building training or policy on these scores.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lu Zhou, LiXiong Bi, YuMing Wu, Lei Wang, Gao Liu, EnLi Cai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 105 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |