1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«The aim of this study was to adapt an existing measure that assesses nurse attitudes regarding the importance of including families in nursing care (FINC-NA) into a measure that assesses professionals’ attitudes regarding the importance of involving fathers in interventions with families (PAFI). This study also tested the psychometric properties of the adapted scale.» (p. 3)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«The sample is constituted by 297 professionals who were recruited «through different health and social services organizations in three regions of Quebec (Outaouais, Laurentides, Montérégie) that included urban, semi-urban, and rural settings.» (p. 4)

Instruments :
Questionnaire

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«The analyses performed showed the psychometric properties of the PAFI to be similar to those of the original FINCGNA scale. Factor loadings indicated that most items loaded on their original factor, except for items 18 (Discussion with the father during first care contact saves time in my future work) and 25 (I consider the father as a cooperating partner), which loaded on the “Father as resource” factor rather than on their original factors (respectively, “Father as conversational partner” and “Father as own resource”). Principal component analysis revealed that the four subscales corresponding to those of the initial scale (“Father! as conversational partner”, “Father as resource”, “Father as burden”, and “Father as own resource”) explained 49.06% of the variance in professional attitudes toward father involvement in family interventions. The four subscales of the initial scale explained 44.9% of the variance in nurses attitudes toward family involvement in nursing care […].» (p. 9) Moreover, just «as the nurses seemed to believe it would be inappropriate not to recognize the importance of family involvement in nursing care […], it appeared that the professionals in our sample were nearly unanimous in their perception of fathers as a resource in family interventions.» (p. 9)