The psychometric properties of the moral distress scale-revised among pediatric nurses
Bahareh Akbarzadeh, Tahereh Nasrabadi, Abbas Ebadi, Mozhdeh Tajari · 2025
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Moral distress gnaws at nurses who must act against their conscience, and pediatric nurses face it often. Bahareh Akbarzadeh and co-authors check whether a standard measuring tool works in Persian: the Moral Distress Scale-Revised. They translated it by the World Health Organization's forward-backward method and tested it on 447 pediatric nurses at a Tehran children's hospital.
Experts rated every item's content validity above 0.8, and the whole scale scored 0.92. Analysis of the answers found four factors: limited competence of providers; care delivered under pressure from personal, organizational, patient, and family factors; futile care; and lack of moral courage. Together they explained about fifty-three percent of the variation. A confirmatory analysis fit the four-factor shape well, and the scale proved consistent over repeated testing. The authors approve the Persian version for measuring distress and planning remedies.
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| CREATOR | Bahareh Akbarzadeh, Tahereh Nasrabadi, Abbas Ebadi, Mozhdeh Tajari |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |