Table 4.

Reliability coefficient of Infectious Disease Specialist Nurse’s Core Competence Scale

Dimension/Scale	Reliability coefficient
	Cronbach’s α coefficient	Split-half reliability	Test-retest reliability
Professional Development Abilities	0.692	0.952	0.881**
Infection Prevention and Control Abilities	0.746	0.915	0.825**
Nursing Abilities for Infectious Diseases	0.764	0.856	0.696**
Professionalism and Humanistic Accomplishment	0.781	0.888	0.843**
Responsiveness to Emergency Infectious Diseases	0.790	0.764	0.866**
Total scale	0.806	0.966	0.831**

Note: ^**P < 0.01