Research in Medical Education

Introduction: The measurement of caring behavior can not only be useful for measuring the caring behavior of students and employees of the health care system, but it can also be used to identify and provide timely information about the status of these behaviors in students and employees, in order to carry out interventions and modify policies. The present study aimed to translate and determine the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the caring behavior scale on healthcare students and providers (CBS-HSP).
Methods: This methodological study was carried out in 2023 with the participation of 330 students and employees of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences who were selected using the convenience method. The instrument was translated using the forward-backwards method. The final version of the scale was checked in terms of validity (content, face and construct validity (using confirmatory factor analysis)) and reliability (Cronbach's alpha, test-retest and intra class correlation) using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 25 and AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures) softwares version 24.
Results:  In reviewing the face validity,  score of all items was higher than 1.5. content validity of all items was accepted.the factor loading of all the items was higher than 0.4, so all the items were retained. The goodness of fit indices of the model indicated the approval of the model and its good fit (GFI: 0.884, NFI: 0.911, CFI: 0.921, and RMSEA: 0.07). The reliability of the scale was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient, test-retest and intra-cluster correlation of 0.84, 0.86 and 0.83, respectively.
Conclusions: The psychometric features of the Persian version of the CBS-HSP scale are favorable, so it can be used in future studies to measure the care behaviors of this population and to evaluate effective interventions on this outcome.