Psychometric properties of the Latino Students Patient Safety Questionnaire, Brazilian version

• Published in: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. e20210961 - 8
• Main Authors: Amaral, Fabrícia Moreira Amorim, Menezes, Aline Carrilho, Azevedo, Cissa, Ferreira, André Carlos Santos, Ribeiro, Helen Cristiny Teodoro Couto, Mata, Luciana Regina Ferreira da
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brazil Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 01-01-2023
• Subjects: Adaptation; Attitudes; Brazil; College students; Curricula; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Hispanic students; Humans; Knowledge; Medical personnel; Medicine; Minority students; Nursing education; Original; Patient Safety; Professional education; Psychometrics; Quantitative psychology; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Students, Medical; Students, Nursing; Surveys and Questionnaires; Validity; Brazil
• ISSN: 0034-7167; 1984-0446
• DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0961

to assess the psychometric properties of the Latino Students Patient Safety Questionnaire, Brazilian version.
a methodological study, carried out between April 2020 and January 2021, with 218 nursing and medicine students. Structural and discriminant construct validity were assessed by confirmatory factor analysis and cross factor loadings. Reliability was verified by McDonald's omega, average variance extracted, composite reliability, and item-total correlation.
the final model reproduced the original structure of 21 items, distributed in five dimensions, requiring the exclusion of one item. Acceptable fit indexes were obtained (x2/gl=2.325; CFI=0.99; TLI=0.98; RMSEA=0.054). Discriminant validity was confirmed. Reliability indicators were adequate, except McDonald's omega, in one factor (0.68), and average variance extracted, in two factors (0.41; 0.47).
the instrument demonstrated evidence of internal validity and satisfactory reliability among nursing and medical students.