Validación de una versión en español de la Escala de Conflicto Decisional

Background: In Chile, in approximately 50% of nursing students, nursing was not their first choice as career. Usually, during the first year, these students must decide whether they would like to continue in the same career. A valid tool is needed to identify decisional conflicts and their contributing factors among these students and to develop an appropriate strategy to support them duríng their decision-making process. Aim: To translate into Spanish and validate the Generic Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS). Material and methods: The DCS was translated from English to Spanish and was used with 331 first-year nursing students at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The scale was assessed for validity and reliability using statistical tests, including factor analysis and Cronbach alpha test. Results: The Spanish version of the DCS had acceptable validity and reliability. Factorial analysis identified four factors and only the item: "advice" loaded the other factors. Cronbach alpha was 0.80. Conclusions: DCS is a valid and useful instrument to identify decisional conflicts and contributing factors to continue studies among nursing students.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Urrutia,Mila, Campos,Solange, O'Connor,Annette
Format: Digital revista
Language:Spanish / Castilian
Published: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2008
Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872008001100010
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