Validation of the Persian version of the Compassionate Care Assessment Tool.
Aliakbar Vaisi-Raygani, Asghar Dalvandi, Kian Nourozi and 5 others
PMID 33575450WHAT IT FOUND
A Persian questionnaire for hospitalized patients' views of compassionate nursing generally worked, but one part was less consistent.
Use it for patient experience, not to judge individual nurses.
Key findings
01The Persian CCAT was analysed using data from 300 hospitalized patients in internal and surgery wards.
02The whole questionnaire gave consistent scores for importance (0.918) and provision (0.933), but the capable practitioner part scored 0.657 for importance.
03When 30 patients completed the questionnaire twice two weeks apart, the whole questionnaire gave stability scores of 0.848 for importance and 0.907 for provision.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for RNs
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What it does not show
The tool was tested only in Persian-speaking hospitalized adults aged 18 to 65 years who were stable, pain-free, and had been hospitalized for at least three days. It was tested in internal and surgery wards in three hospitals in Kermanshah, so it may not apply to other wards, countries, or cultures. The authors could not examine criterion-related validity because no suitable Iranian comparison tool was available. The capable practitioner subscale had only three statements and showed lower consistency for importance. The study measured patients' perceptions of compassionate care; it did not test whether using the tool improves nursing care or patient outcomes.
Declared interests
The study was funded by the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the validated Persian CCAT as proof that compassionate nursing improves patient recovery. It measures patients' perceptions of care in internal and surgery wards, and the study did not test clinical outcomes.