Adapting the Cross-Culturally Adapted Care-Related Regret Coping Scale into Turkish: A Methodological Study

Objective: The purpose of the current study is to investigate the Turkish validity and reliability of the Care-Related Regret Coping Scale. Material and Methods: The study was conducted within a methodological design and 257 nurses participated. The scale was re-administered to 30 of the nurses participating in the survey for test-retest evaluation was taken. The study includes the stages of translation and content validity, evaluation of validity (exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses) and reliability analysis. Results: The language of the scale was found to be appropriate according to translation-back translation and evaluation by experts. The sample adequacy calculated by KMO was 0.728, and the Bartlett's test result was detected to be ꭓ2 =506.942 (sd: 45 p<0.001). Exploratory factor analysis yielded a structure consisting of 8 items and 2 factors. These 2 factors explain 65.3% of the total variance. The fit indices values (Cmin/df=1.283, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation=0.046, Standardized Root Mean Square Residual=0.039, Goodness of Fit Index=0.961, Adjusted Goodness of Fit Statistic=0.918, Normed Fit Index=0.957, Non-Normed Fit Index (NNFI)=0.983, Comparative Fit Index=0.990, Incremental Fit Index=0.990) indicated that the model showed a good fit. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the 2-factor structure. The Cronbach's alpha values of the subscales were found to be α=0.887 and α=0.741. The intraclass correlation coefficient for the 3 factors in the original scale was found to be 0.902, 0.850, and 0.925. Conclusion: The study's results indicated that the Care-Related Regret Coping Scale-TR version was sufficient according to the validity and reliability results. The scale can be used to evaluate how nurses cope with care-related regret in Türkiye.