Turkish validity and reliability study of the kidney transplant understanding tool (K-TUT) in Kidney transplant recipients

Q2 Nursing

Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI:10.1016/j.pcorm.2025.100515

Naile Akıncı , Kadriye Nilay Genç , Çağla Toprak

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Abstract

Aim

The study was conducted methodologically to evaluate the validity and reliability of the KTUT scale in kidney transplant recipients.

Material and Method

The population of the study consisted of kidney transplant patients at a private hospital group in Istanbul, while the sample comprised patients who met the inclusion criteria and volunteered for the study. Based on ten times the number of scale items, 220 individuals were included in the sample to prevent data loss and to ensure high representativeness. In the study, data collection tools such as the "Patient Information Form" and the "KTUT" scale were employed. The test-retest study was repeated two weeks later with 50 participants. The participants in the retest were not included in other tests of the scale.

Findings

The overall content validity index of the scale (S-CVI/Ave) was found to be 0.93. According to the experts' opinions, the content validity of the scale is high, and the majority of the items have been deemed appropriate for the measurement purpose. The internal consistency reliability coefficient of the scale (Cronbach's Alpha) was calculated as 0.789. This threshold indicates that the scale possesses an acceptable level of reliability for use at the group level. In addition, the results of the study reveal that the scores of the K-TUT scale show a significant difference in the 27 % lower and 27 % upper groups.

Conclusion

As a result of the study, the K-TUT scale has been shown to reliably distinguish knowledge levels and to be an effective measurement tool in the field of kidney transplant.

It is thought that using the Turkish version of the K-TUT to evaluate the knowledge levels of kidney transplant recipients will contribute to evaluation of developed programs and the improvement of patients' treatment processes.

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土耳其肾移植理解工具（K-TUT）在肾移植受者中的有效性和可靠性研究

目的采用方法学方法评价肾移植受者KTUT量表的效度和信度。材料和方法研究的人群包括伊斯坦布尔一家私立医院集团的肾移植患者，而样本包括符合纳入标准并自愿参加研究的患者。为了防止数据丢失和保证高代表性，根据十倍的量表条目数，将220个人纳入样本。本研究采用“患者信息表”、“KTUT”量表等数据收集工具。两周后，50名参与者重复了测试-再测试研究。重新测试的参与者不包括在量表的其他测试中。结果量表的总体内容效度指数（S-CVI/Ave）为0.93。根据专家意见，该量表的内容效度较高，大部分项目已被认为适合测量目的。计算该量表的内部一致性信度系数（Cronbach's Alpha）为0.789。该阈值表明该量表具有可接受的可靠性水平，可以在组一级使用。此外，研究结果显示，K-TUT量表得分在27%的低组和27%的高组中存在显著差异。研究结果表明，K-TUT量表可以可靠地区分知识水平，是肾移植领域的一种有效的测量工具。据认为，使用土耳其版的K-TUT来评估肾移植受者的知识水平将有助于评估已开发的项目和改善患者的治疗过程。

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Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management Nursing-Medical and Surgical Nursing

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1.30

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56 days

期刊介绍： The objective of this new online journal is to serve as a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed source of information related to the administrative, economic, operational, safety, and quality aspects of the ambulatory and in-patient operating room and interventional procedural processes. The journal will provide high-quality information and research findings on operational and system-based approaches to ensure safe, coordinated, and high-value periprocedural care. With the current focus on value in health care it is essential that there is a venue for researchers to publish articles on quality improvement process initiatives, process flow modeling, information management, efficient design, cost improvement, use of novel technologies, and management.