Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Urinary Catheter Self-Care Management Questionnaire

This research aims to analyse the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Urinary Catheter Self-Efficacy Scale (C-SE) and the Urinary Catheter Self-Management Scale (C-SMG), which comprise the Urinary Catheter Self-Care Management Questionnaire. This research is planned as a cross-sectional, methodological type of scale adaptation study. The research was conducted in three hospitals in the northwest of Turkey with 101 patients. Content validity index and confirmatory factor analysis were used in the validity analyses. In the reliability analyses, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, the split-half method, the item-total score, and Pearson's correlation analyses were used. The content validity index was 0.911 for the C-SE and 0.989 for the C-SMG. Cronbach's alpha values for the scales were 0.928 and 0.882, respectively. Besides, the item-total correlations changed between 0.562 and 0.831 for the C-SE and between 0.315 and 0.759 for the C-SMG. The coefficients got in halving were 0.960 and 0.943, respectively. The two scales that make up the Urinary Catheter Self-Care Management Questionnaire are valid and reliable measurement tools that can be used for patients undergoing long-term urinary catheterization in Turkey. In line with the results obtained from this study, we suggest that the Urinary Catheter Self-Care Management Questionnaire should be used to evaluate the self-efficacy or self-management levels of Turkish patients undergoing long-term urinary catheterization and to evaluate the effects of nursing interventions on the self-efficacy or self-management levels of patients who have undergone long-term urinary catheterization.