Background: Adequate nutritional knowledge among intensive care nurses is essential for early identification of nutritional risk and prevention of complications in critically ill patients. The questionnaire “Nurses’ perceptions of responsibility, knowledge and documentation focusing on enteral nutrition and nursing practice regarding enteral feeding in the intensive care unit”, developed by Persenius et al., is used internationally, yet no culturally adapted Spanish version has been available. Objectives: This study aimed to translate and culturally adapt Persenius et al.’s questionnaire and evaluate its content for use among Spanish-speaking intensive care unit (ICU) nurses. Materials and methods: A multistep process was conducted, including forward–backward translation, expert review by an expert panel of ICU nurses (N = 26) with at least 2 years of critical care experience, and content validity analysis. Experts rated item relevance and comprehensibility. Item Content Validity Index (I-CVI), Scale CVI, and Aiken’s V were calculated using predefined thresholds. Linguistic clarity/comprehensibility was assessed on a 5-point Likert scale (1–5). To assess the questionnaire’s reliability, Cronbach’s alpha was also analysed in a pilot study (N = 99). Results: The Spanish version retained all 47 original items after minor linguistic adjustments. All items met the minimum content validity threshold; most showed I-CVI values > 0.78 and acceptable Aiken’s V coefficients. The mean comprehensibility score for all items exceeded 4.0, indicating high clarity. No item required significant semantic modification after expert review. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.85 reflected its reliability. Conclusions: The Spanish version of Persenius et al.’s questionnaire demonstrated adequate content and linguistic validity and internal consistency in a pilot sample of ICU nurses.
Background/Objectives: Enteral nutrition is an essential component of care for critically ill patients, and nurses play a key role in its assessment, delivery, and monitoring. Although the Spanish version of the Persenius Scale has previously undergone translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and content validation, its structural validity has not yet been evaluated. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the structural validity of the Spanish version of the Persenius Scale in a sample of intensive care unit nurses in Spain. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online questionnaire administered to intensive care unit nurses. The analytical sample included 329 participants recruited through non-probability snowball sampling. Sampling adequacy was assessed using the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin index and Bartlett’s test of sphericity. Principal component analysis with Varimax rotation was performed to evaluate the structural validity of the instrument. Hierarchical cluster analysis was also used to examine the coherence of item grouping. Results: The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin value was 0.88, and Bartlett’s test of sphericity was significant, supporting the suitability of the data for component analysis. A five-component solution was retained, explaining approximately 58% of the total variance. The components were organizational resources, specialized training, professional responsibility, perceived competence, and technical modality of enteral administration. Organizational resources and professional responsibility showed the most homogeneous loading patterns, whereas several technical practice items demonstrated higher uniqueness and weaker structural integration. Conclusions: The present study provides preliminary evidence regarding the internal structure of the Spanish version of the Persenius Scale by demonstrating a clinically interpretable five-component structure. The instrument may support the assessment of educational, organizational, and professional aspects of enteral nutrition practice among intensive care unit nurses.