Aylin Aydın Sayılan1, Feride Eşkin Bacaksız2, Ezgi Seyhan Ak3, Nurşen Kulakaç4, John Rey B. Macindo5

1Department of Nursing, Kırklareli University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kırklareli, Türkiye
2Department of Nursing Administration, University of Health Sciences, Hamidiye Faculty of Nursing, Istanbul, Türkiye
3Department of Surgical Nursing, Florence Nightingale, Faculty of Nursing, Istanbul, Türkiye
4Department of Nursing, Gumushane University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gumushane, Türkiye
5Department of Nursing, Amosup Seamen’s Hospital, Manila, Philippines

Keywords: Management, nurse, pain, reliability, self-efficacy, validity.

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study is to examine the Turkish validity and reliability of the Pain Management Self-Efficacy Ques-tionnaire (PMSEQ).
Methods: The study was carried out descriptively and methodologically between September and December 2018 with 214 nurses and 248 nursing students. The data were collected using the descriptive characteristics form and the PMSEQ.
Results: Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient was 0.90 in the total scale. In repeated measurements to test time reliability, there was no statistically significant difference between the two measurements (t=0.320, p=0.751), and there were a high power and positively highly significant relationship (r=0.997, p<0.001).
Conclusion: Turkish version of the PMSEQ can be used as a valid and reliable scale in assessing the self-efficacy of clinical nurses and nursing students in pain management.