Highlights
- •Parental readiness is one requirement for discharging a baby from neonatal care.
- •There are no standard tools to measure parental readiness according to parents’ perceptions in Indonesia.
- •The Bahasa Indonesia version of the RHDS-Parent Form,has acceptable reliability and validity for use with NICU parents.
- •Four factors were evident including knowledge and coping ability, physical-emotional readiness, pain and power and expected support.
Abstract
Purpose
Parental readiness is a requirement for discharge of the high-risk infant from the
hospital. Currently, in Indonesia, there are no standard tools to measure parental
readiness according to parents' perceptions. This study aimed to undertake cross-cultural
adaptation and psychometric validation of the original version (English) of the Readiness
for Hospital Discharge Scale (RHDS)-Parent into Bahasa Indonesia.
Design and methods
The cross-cultural adaptation was comprised of seven steps: forward translation, forward
translation review, blind-back translation, back translation review, pilot testing
of the pre-final version with mothers of low birth weight (LBW) infants, expert panel
for conceptual and content equivalence, and initial psychometric testing. In the fifth
and sixth steps, content validity index was estimated. In the seventh step, exploratory
factor analysis (EFA) and internal consistency reliability were conducted. In total,
146 mothers of LBW infants were included in the psychometric testing using convenience
sampling.
Results
The 22 item Bahasa-RHDS-Parent emerged in a four-factor structure evident from EFA.
This version has good reliability with Cronbach alpha values for knowledge and coping
ability (0.92), physical-emotional readiness (0.89), pain and power (0.83), expected
support (0.80) and 0.90 across the total Bahasa-RHDS-Parent.
Conclusion
The Bahasa-RHDS-Parent presents good cross-cultural adaptation and initial psychometric
properties for assessing parental readiness in parents with LBW infants before hospital
discharge.
Practice implications
This questionnaire can be used by nurses to measure readiness for discharge of parents
of low birthweight babies. Further testing is needed with a larger sample and parents
of children of other ages and conditions for instrument improvement.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 07, 2020
Accepted:
May 17,
2020
Received in revised form:
May 16,
2020
Received:
December 6,
2019
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