TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Psychometric evaluation of the Disaster Preparedness Evaluation Tool(©) (DPET) on emergency nurses in Mainland China: two cross-sectional studies
JO  - Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
A1  - Wang, Jia
A1  - Lu, Sihui
A1  - Sun, Xinglan
A1  - Wang, Fen
A1  - Wan, Meijuan
A1  - Chen, Hanxi
A1  - Tan, Yibing
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - BACKGROUND: Emergency nurses play a major role in disaster relief in mainland China, but there is no valid instrument to measure the extent of their disaster preparedness. The Disaster Preparedness Evaluation Tool© is a reliable instrument to assess the disaster preparedness of nurse practitioners. The tool has been translated and validated in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, China and the United States of America. <br><br>OBJECTIVES: This study aimed at translating and adapting the Disaster Preparedness Evaluation Tool© (DPET) for emergency nurses in mainland China and determining its psychometric properties. DESIGN, SETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS: A total of 2 cross-sectional online surveys were conducted in the emergency departments of 26 public grade III-A hospitals in Guangdong, mainland China. In the first study, 633 emergency nurses were recruited from May to August, 2018. In the second study, 205 were recruited in April 2019. <br><br>METHODS: The instrument was adapted through rigorous forward-backward translation, face validity, and pre-test processes. Exploratory factor and parallel analyses were used in the first study. Confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency and split-half reliability were used in the second study. <br><br>RESULTS: Exploratory factor and parallel analyses extracted a 5-factor solution comprising of 34 items that accounted for 64.06% of the total variance. The fit indices indicated a good model fit. The reliability was good, as indicated by a Cronbach's alpha of 0.97 and a split-half reliability coefficient of 0.97. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The mainland China version of the DPET (DPET-MC) was a reliable and valid instrument and can be used in practice.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1935-7893
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.39
ID  - ref1
ER  -