artículos originales0 Diseño y validación de una escala de actitudes de los profesionales asistenciales hacia la liberación del uso de sujeciones en personas dependientes Development and validation of a scale of healthcare professional attitudes to the liberation from restraint use with dependent people

Background. There are studies on the prevalence and use of restraints but not a measuring instrument to eliminate subjectivity in evaluation of their use in clinical practice and research in our environment. Objective. Design and validation of a scale of measurement of attitudes of health care professionals towards the use of physical and pharmacological restraints. Methods. Descriptive and correlational study for scale validation. Following a literature review, we developed a list of items that were subjected to a validity analysis: validity of content through judges, validity of criterion through external variable contrast, and validity of construct using exploratory factor analysis. Reliability was analysed using the Cronbach alpha coefficient.