The CARES instrument assesses 10 subscales related to the environmental affordance of nursing tasks in healthcare settings (Rich et al., 2021).

• How were the instruments validated according to their source articles? What steps did the researchers take to validate them?
• To what extent do you think the instrument is valid? Do you think the researchers and peer reviewers did a sufficient job validating the instrument to make it reliable enough to be administered in various contexts and situations? Why or why not?
• Which columns in each dataset best represent independent and dependent variables, respectively? Why? Reference

Rich, R. K., Jimenez, F. E., Bohacek, C., Moore, A., Heithoff, A. J., Conley, D. M., & Brittin, J. (2021). The HDR CARE Scale, Inpatient Version: A validated survey instrument to measure environmental affordance for nursing tasks in inpatient healthcare settings.PloS One,16(10), e0258815.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258815