Adaptation of The Individual Innovativeness Scale in Nursing Profesion: Turkish Validity - Reliability Study

Abstract

Aim: The research was methodologically carried out with the purpose of adapting the Individual Innovation Scale to Turkish and testing its validity and reliability. Methods: The research comprised 273 nurses between January 2013 and January 2014 at three hospitals in Erzurum, Turkey. The Indivi-dual Innovativeness Scale was used as a data collection tool. While the data were evaluated, group translation and translation-back translation method were applied within the scope of language validity. The Con-tent Validity Index was used for the validity of the scope by consul-ting expert opinion. Explanatory factor analysis was done for structure validity. The Kaiser-Mayer Olkin and Bartlett test, Basic Component Analysis and Varimax Rotation were used for exploratory factor analy-sis. For reliability analysis, Cronbach Alpha, item-total correlation tests and test-retest were conducted, and 27% lower and upper quartiles were tested for item discrimination. Results: The Turkish version of the Individual Innovativeness Scale is composed of 18 items and 3 sub-scales. Item total score correlation values of the scale are between .41 and .62, factor loads are between .49 and .75 and the result of test -retest is statistically significant. Cron-bach alpha of the scale was found to be .82 in total and between .72 and .80 in sub-scales.