Reliability and validity study of the Spanish adaptation of the “Creighton Simulation Evaluation Instrument (C-SEI)”

Abstract

There are multiple advantages to using human patient simulation (HPS) as a teaching method for clinical nursingeducation. Valid, reliable tools that can be used when applying this teaching method are needed to evaluatenursing student skill acquisition.The aim of this study was to translate the Creighton Simulation Evaluation Instrument (C-SEI) into Spanishand to analyse the reliability and validity of the Spanish C-SEI version with nursing students.The study was conducted in two phases: (1) Adaptation of the instrument into Spanish. (2) Cross-sectionalstudy in a sample of 249 nursing students who were evaluated by two observers. The psychometric propertieswere analysed in terms of reliability (internal consistency and inter-observer consistency) and construct validityusing an exploratory factor analysis.Questionnaire internal consistency was 0.839 for the tool as a whole. Inter-observer concordance for the toolas a whole was 0.936 and greater than 0.80 for the majority of the items. The exploratory factor analysis showeda four-factor structure that explains 49.5% of the total variance.The results of this study show that the C-SEI-sp tool is a valid and reliable tool that is easy to apply in themonitoring of student performance in clinical simulation scenarios.