Purpose: To develop a new questionnaire for assessing nurses’ current situation of knowledge, attitude and practice related to trauma-informed care (TIC) for patients with traumatic injury.
Methods: By literature review, qualitative interview and Delphi consultation, the 46 preliminary items about trauma-informed care of nurses working with traumatically injured patients were selected. After that, the preliminary questionnaire was distributed to 293 Chinese nurses in relevant departments. The collected data were analyzed by internal reliability, split-half reliability, structural validity and content validity.
Results: The questionnaire was developed with a total of 30 items in 3 dimensions: 8 items in the TIC knowledge dimension, 10 items in the TIC attitude dimension and 12 items in the TIC practice dimension. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.939, and the content validity was 0.971.
Conclusion: This designed questionnaire shews receptable reliability and validity, which could be used to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses in application of trauma-informed care for traumatically injured patients.

Keywords: trauma-informed care, traumatic injury, nurse, questionnaire