Validation to Spanish of the Caring Assessment Tool (CAT-V).
Rosa María Fernández Ayuso, Juan Manuel Morillo Velázquez, David Fernández Ayuso and 1 others
PMID 29069268WHAT IT FOUND
Spanish inpatients could rate nurses' caring behaviours with a translated hospital questionnaire that produced consistent responses.
It did not match the original English structure, showing a dominant dimension.
Key findings
01The Spanish CAT-V was completed by 349 hospital patients after cleaning 382 collected surveys.
02The scale had high reliability, with Cronbach's alpha 0.953.
03Factor analysis found three factors, with one factor explaining 47.387% of variance.
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What it does not show
The study did not perform confirmatory factor analysis, so the found structure needs testing in a new sample. It used patients from hospitals in Madrid only, so it may not represent all Spanish-speaking settings. The scale asks patients to rate nurses' caring behaviours, so it measures perception rather than observed care quality. Incomplete surveys were removed, so the analysed sample was smaller than the number collected.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the validation as proof that using this questionnaire improves nursing care or patient outcomes. It shows how consistently patients answered the items in this sample, not that care was effective.