Objective:

The adaptation of ICAS in the Spanish context of nursing practice.

Methods:

A cross-sectional study was carried, using the bidirectional translation method for linguistic-cultural adaptation. It was applied to the nursing staff in a universitary hospital. Reliability, internal consistence and construct validity were calculated to evaluate the psychometrics properties of the Spanish version.

Results:

Participation was of 188 nurses. Cronbach´s alpha coefficient for the total scale was 0,881, with coefficients between 0,816 and 0,622 in the subscales. Exploratory factor analysis resulted in four factors, which explained 49,268% of total variance, and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure was 0,850.

Conclusions:

The Spanish version showed high internal consistency and psychometrics characteristics like appropriate tool for assessing interpersonal communications skills between nurses and patients.