Validation of Chinese version of the 4-item Trust in Nurses Scale in patients with cancer

Figures & data

Table 1 Sample characteristics (N=190)

Characteristics	Mean ± SD or number (%)
Age, years	46±13.2
Sex, male	97 (51.1)
Ethnicity, Han nationality	186 (97.9)
Marital status
Married	152 (80.0)
Not married	20 (10.5)
Widowed/divorced	18 (9.5)
Educationa
Low	25 (13.1)
Medium	98 (51.6)
High	67 (35.3)
Type of admission
Planned	154 (81.1)
Emergency admission	36 (18.9)
Previous experiences of hospital
Yes	172 (90.5)
No	18 (9.5)
TNS (range 4–20)	15.4±3.4
NPTS (range 41–164)	127.4±17.1

Notes:

a Low = none, primary school; medium = middle-level vocational training, higher level secondary general education; high = higher level vocational training, academic education.

Abbreviations: NPTS, Nurse–Patient Trust Scale; TNS, Trust in Nurses Scale.

Figure 1 Distribution of total TNS scores.

Abbreviation: TNS, Trust in Nurses Scale.

Figure 2 Individual agreement between test and retest scores of the TNS.

Notes: The horizontal solid line represents the mean difference between both scores. The dashed line represents the 95% limits of agreement (mean difference 1.96±SD of the difference). TNS-1 means the first test of TNS; TNS-2 means the re-test of TNS.
Abbreviation: TNS, Trust in Nurses Scale.

Figure 3 Screen plot.

Note: One factor with eigenvalue ≥1 was extracted using principal component analysis.

Figure 4 Standardized factor loadings and residuals for the items of the TNS-4.

Abbreviation: TNS, Trust in Nurses Scale.

Table 2 Factor analysis of the Chinese version of TNS

Item no	Element matrix	Communality
1	0.738	0.544
2	0.812	0.659
3	0.774	0.599
4	0.744	0.554
Percentage of explained variance	60.91
Component suggested	1
KMO	0.762
Bartlett’s test, chi-square (P-value)	183.905 (<0.001)

Abbreviations: KMO, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin; TNS, Trust in Nurses Scale.