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Article

Comfort Behavior Scale Instrument: Validity And Reliability Test for Critically-ill Pediatric Patients in Indonesia

by
Dina Nurpita Suprawoto
,
Nani Nurhaeni
* and
Fajar Tri Waluyanti
Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Pediatr. Rep. 2020, 12(s1), 8690; https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2020.8690
Submission received: 16 June 2020 / Revised: 16 June 2020 / Accepted: 16 June 2020 / Published: 25 June 2020

Abstract

The COMFORT Behavior Scale (CBS) is an instrument that has been validated in several languages to assess the levels of sedation in children. This project was implemented to identify the validity and reliability of CBS. The design used was an analytic descriptive cross-sectional approach. Fifty-one children aged 1 month to 18 years who received analgesic and/or sedation therapy were purposively selected and assessed for their sedation levels using CBS and the Nurse Interpretation of Sedation Score (NISS). The data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test to measure the concurrent validity; each item was analyzed using Pearson correlation; inter-rater reliability was measured by the Kappa coefficient; and the internal consistency was measured by Cronbach’s α. The results showed there was no significant correlation between the levels of sedation assessed using CBS and NISS (P= 0.118; α= 0.05). Six items in the CBS instrument were found to be valid (r= 0.348–0.813). The Cronbach’s α for CBS was 0.873. Thus, the Indonesian version of CBS is valid and reliable in assessing sedation levels in children.
Keywords: COMFORT Behavior Scale; level of sedation; reliability; validity COMFORT Behavior Scale; level of sedation; reliability; validity

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Suprawoto, D.N.; Nurhaeni, N.; Waluyanti, F.T. Comfort Behavior Scale Instrument: Validity And Reliability Test for Critically-ill Pediatric Patients in Indonesia. Pediatr. Rep. 2020, 12, 8690. https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2020.8690

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Suprawoto DN, Nurhaeni N, Waluyanti FT. Comfort Behavior Scale Instrument: Validity And Reliability Test for Critically-ill Pediatric Patients in Indonesia. Pediatric Reports. 2020; 12(s1):8690. https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2020.8690

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Suprawoto, Dina Nurpita, Nani Nurhaeni, and Fajar Tri Waluyanti. 2020. "Comfort Behavior Scale Instrument: Validity And Reliability Test for Critically-ill Pediatric Patients in Indonesia" Pediatric Reports 12, no. s1: 8690. https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2020.8690

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Suprawoto, D. N., Nurhaeni, N., & Waluyanti, F. T. (2020). Comfort Behavior Scale Instrument: Validity And Reliability Test for Critically-ill Pediatric Patients in Indonesia. Pediatric Reports, 12(s1), 8690. https://doi.org/10.4081/pr.2020.8690

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