Translating and testing the Alberta context tool for use among nurses in Swedish elder care

Table 3 Internal consistency for eight contextual concepts of ACT in elder care

ACT- contextual concepts	Cronbach’s alpha
ACT- contextual concepts	Pilot study	Pilot study data analysed by the modified ACT
Leadership	0.87 (n = 149)	No change to contextual concept
Culture	0.63 (n = 148)	No change to contextual conceptⁱ
Evaluation	0.87 (n = 147)	No change to contextual concept
Informal interactions	0.56 (n = 134)	0.63
Formal interactions	0.73 (n = 153)	0.80
Social capital	0.68 (n = 149)	No change to contextual concept
Structural and electronic resourcesⁱⁱ	0.77 (n = 118)	0.77
Organizational slack (staffing, space, time)ⁱⁱⁱ	0.87 (n = 133)	No change to contextual concept

ⁱ In an analysis excluding the item with a translation error, the pilot test data reached a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.71 for the contextual concept Culture.
ⁱⁱ The response alternative ‘Not available’, presented for items regarding structural and electronic resources, was treated as ‘Never’ in the pilot test analysis, as a not available resource could not be used.
ⁱⁱⁱ In the revised ACT, organizational slack is derived as three separate concepts: staffing, space, and time.

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