Validation of the Comfort scale for relatives of people in critical states of health 1

Copyright © 2015 Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC). This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. Corresponding Author: Kátia Santana Freitas Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana Departamento de Saúde Av. Transnordestina, Km 3, s/n Bairro: Novo Horizonte CEP: 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil E-mail: [email protected] 1 Paper extracted from Doctoral Dissertation “Construction and validation of the scale of comfort to relatives of people in critical state of health (ECONF)”, presented to Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. Supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil, process # 483821/2011. 2 PhD, Adjunct Professor, Departamento de Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil. 3 PhD, Adjunct Professor, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 4 PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. Validation of the Comfort scale for relatives of people in critical states of health1