Margaret M Plack, Marjorie Johnson Hilliard, Ellen Costello, Karen Huhn, Joyce Maring, William E Healey
Transformative Learning Emerging From Challenges First-Year Students Experienced
Journal, physical therapy education
multidisciplinary healthcare providers especially clinical nurses lack valid tool assess comprehensive barriers affecting oncofertility care breast cancer treatment aims research develop selfassessment scale oncofertility barriers test validity reliability methodological study initial 36 items developed oncofertility barrier scale obs generated qualitative study review literature scale refined using expert validity n 10 face validity n 10 item analysis n 184 exploratory factor analysis principal axis factoring direct oblimin rotation used determine construct validity reliability obs evaluated using internal consistency testretest analyses mean itemlevel scalelevel content validity indices initial obs higher 96 data shown feasible factor analysis sixfactor solution chosen accounted approximately 576 total variance factors included lack information education b rigid thinking toward oncofertility care c cancer patient stereotypes fertility risk e insufficient support f interrupted oncofertility care cronbachs alpha 27item obs 91 testretest reliability coefficient 55 final version developed obs acceptable reliability content validity construct validity scale appropriate use research clinical practice settings identify barriers fertility cancer care resolved breast cancer care team