• Maria Dolors Burjalés-Martí, Maria Assumpta Rigol-Cuadra, Cristina Anguiano-Carrasco, Antonia Martorell-Poveda, Maria Francisca Jiménez-Herrera, Concepció Fuentes-Pumarola, Dolors Rodríguez-Martín, Paola Galbany-Estragués, and David Ballester-Ferrando.
• Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Rovira and Virgili University, Avinguda Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain. Electronic address: mdolors.burjales@urv.cat.
• Nurse Educ Today. 2018 Jun 1; 65: 17-22.

BackgroundIntimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most important challenges facing today's society. Health professionals, and nurses in particular, play a leading role in addressing this problem. Having an instrument to study Nursing students' perception of this type of violence may enable appropriate and necessary educational strategies for their pre-service training and help them identify and address IPV in their future careers.ObjectivesTo adapt and validate the IPV scale of Beccaria et al. (2011) in order to study nursing students' perception of IPV.MethodThe original instrument (63 items) underwent back-translation. Statistical and metrical analysis in a sample of 1064 students of the four-year Nursing degree program at four public universities in Catalonia (Spain) were based on their responses to the Spanish version.ResultsThe results of the exploratory factorial analysis and subsequent confirmatory analysis showed that the data had an adequate fit for a four-factor model. The reliability analysis showed adequate internal consistency for each subscale in the instrument: Education (0.83); Identification of the Victim (0.72); Nursing Role and Values (0.78), and Identification of the Perpetrator (0.66).ConclusionThe translation, cultural adaptation and validation process of the original IPV scale resulted in a Spanish-language instrument (IPV scale Spanish version) with 32 items in four subscales. We concluded that the Spanish version of the instrument is reliable and valid, and that its implementation would enable the assessment of nursing students' perception of IPV situations.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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