Caring Behaviors Inventory-24 Revised: CBI-16 Validation and Psychometric Properties

Researchers examined psychometric properties of the Caring Behaviors Inventory (CBI)-24 on perceptions of nurse caring. Hospitalized adult patients (N = 303) completed the instrument. Investigators reduced the number of items on the English version. Item means, frequencies, written comments by patients, Cronbach's alpha coefficients, and initial principal components analysis (PCA) shaped revisions. A second PCA was calculated on 16 items; one component resulted, explaining 58.01% of the total variance. Contrasted groups and factorial validity and internal consistency reliability were established. Future research should test diverse samples on the 16 using contrasted groups, discriminant and criterion-related validity and test-retest reliability.