Items

Factor loadings

Factor 1

Factor 2

Factor 3

Factor 4

Factor 1: Nursing practice based on the assessment which focused on social resources.

23

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on current job or schoolwork.

0.768

0.143

0.026

0.023

20

Nurses assess mentally disabled person and provides care with emphasis on his/her housing.

0.765

0.276

0.069

−0.007

22

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on his/her economic situation including insurance.

0.661

0.323

0.081

0.074

25

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on necessary social resource.

0.585

0.403

0.169

0.146

24

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on his/her hope.

0.534

0.360

0.174

0.151

21

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on his/her human relations.

0.529

0.489

0.155

0.082

Factor 2: Nursing practice based on the holistic assessment of person with mental disability.

17

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on mental health conditions.

0.203

0.823

0.120

0.172

18

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on ability to perform activities of daily life.

0.342

0.713

0.138

0.190

16

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on physical conditions.

0.333

0.654

0.086

0.067

19

Nurses assess persons with mental disability and provide care with emphasis on social ability.

0.466

0.639

0.144

0.081

Factor 3: Support in community which respected the person’s way of living.

9

Behaviors of person with mental disability is affected by their own life histories, current social relationships, and goals in life.

0.058

0.141

0.553

0.308

10

The nurses’ role is to maintain a healthy lifestyle for each person.

0.049

0.110

0.532

0.316

8

The main place of supporting persons with mental disability is a community.

0.154

0.013

0.532

0.214

15

The availability of peer support is important for person with mental disability.

0.162

0.209

0.527

0.233

12

Knowing a person’s inner world, intentionally leads to a nursing intervention illustrating the person’s ways of living to maintain and improve the person’s quality of living in the community

0.071

0.111

0.518

0.434

11

Nurse have to improve patient’s ability to do self-management and self-care.

0.048

0.194

0.487

0.335

13

The innovations of the functional capabilities of psychiatric hospitals are required for deinstitutionalization.

0.057

0.145

0.476

0.331

6

In the process of providing care, persons with mental disability is a decision maker.

0.175

0.096

0.413

0.288

14

Different care providers have different appreciation for providing care for mentally disabled persons, and the difference is important for team care.

0.113

0.153

0.408

0.147

Factor 4: Emphasize on the strengths of individuals with mental disability.

5

To achieve recovery that is desired by a person with mental disability, nurses have to care for them by bringing out their own abilities with help from health care and welfare specialists, family members, and community.

0.035

0.101

0.179

0.797

4

It is important to support persons with mental disability so that they can bring up their own ability that they already have.

0.061

0.116

0.262

0.728

7

In the care process, the human relationship between nurse and nursed is fundamental.

0.039

0.098

0.449

0.523

Eigen value

3.120

2.966

2.677

2.382

Variance, %

14.181

13.482

12.169

10.827

Cumulative variance, %

14.181

27.663

39.831

50.659

Cronbach’s alpha

0.872

0.876

0.825

0.788