The purpose of the study is a development of scale for measuring "knowledge and practice of aphasia patient nursing care" of nurses. Aphasia patient care proficiency self-assessment scale, which consists of 15 items, is simple for respondents to be able to respond in a short time and its credibility and validity have been recognized. The scale has obtained 0.87 of correlation coefficient by test-retest method conducted for 193 of nurses of recovery wings, showing 0.82�`0.87 of Cronbach �� confidence coefficient between each subscale, and its internal coincidence has been confirmed. In addition, two major factors, i.e. "aphasia patient care knowledge factor" and "aphasia care factor" have been extracted, showing 47.5% of cumulative contribution with 0.52�`0.79 of factor loading. Further, as a result of principal component analysis, cumulative contributions of "aphasia patient care knowledge factor"and"aphasia care factor" were 54.5% and 69.5% respectively, and the validity of constructive concept has been recognized.
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