Abstract:

Objective To translate the Patient Privacy Scale（PPS） and examine its reliability and validity among nursing interns，so as to provide an evaluation tool for investigating the current situation from protection of patients’ privacy by nursing interns in China. Methods After obtaining the authorization from the author of the original scale，literal translation，back translation was carried out and expert consultation was conducted afterward. By convenient sampling，200 nursing students from three medical colleges in Shanxi Province were investigated，and six experts were invited to test and evaluate the reliability and validity of the scale. Results The Chinese version of Patient Privacy Scale contains a total of five dimensions with 25 items. The correlation coefficients between each item and the total score were ranged from 0.763 to 0.917，and ranged from 0.479 to 0.760 for each item. Through exploratory factor analysis，the KMO value was 0.855，and χ² of Bartlett’s test of sphericity was 5 219.120（P<0.001），and the cumulative variance explained rate was 80.028%. For each item，the range was 0.83~1.00 for I-CVI and 0.96 for total scale S-CVI. Besides，Cronbach’s α of the whole scale was 0.967，and Cronbach’s α for five dimensions was ranged from 0.891 to 0.974. The test-retest reliability was 0.868. Conclusion The Chinese version of Patient Privacy Scale has good reliability and validity，which can be adopted as a tool for evaluating ability of nursing interns to protect patients’ privacy in our country.

Key words: Students, Nursing, Clinical Practice, Questionnaires, Reliability, Validity, Privacy protection