self efficacy is task specific so you have to make your own scale--see Bandura's website for guidelines

I know of one tool for hemodialysis patients with fluid intake restrictions, The Fluid Intake Appraisal Inventory (FIAI) was developed for Swedish patients (Lindberg, M., Wikstrom, B., & Lindberg, P. (2007). Fluid intake appraisal inventory: Development and psychometric evaluation of a situation-specific measure for haemodialysis patients' self-efficacy to low fluid intake. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 63(2), 167-173).

FIAI has been translated into portuguese (Lindberg, M., & Fernandes, M. A. (2010). Self-efficacy in relation to limited fluid intake amongst portuguese haemodialysis patients. Journal of Renal Care, 36(3), 133-138. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6686.2010.00182.x ), and dutch (Winters, A.M., Lindberg M. & Sol, B.G. (2013). Validation of a dutch self-efficacy scale for adherence to fluid allowance among patients on haemodialysis.J Ren Care. Mar;39(1):31-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2012.00325.x.).

FIAI is curently under translation and validation to Danish by my group.

Maybe you can use the General Self-Efficacy Scale (10-item psychometric scale) that is designed to assess optimistic self-beliefs to cope with a variety of difficult demands in life and also translated in different language.

Best regards, Jenny

General SE (which Bandura opposes as a measure) is much less valid that one that is task/domain specific.

i used the self efficacy tools in mothers who had a breast feeding but i think it is better to look at bandura scale

I assume you mean Bandura's method of making a SE scale for the domain in question???

I know the 'Epilepsy Self-Efficacy Scale' and 'Insulin Management Self-Efficacy Scale'. You can find both with detail descriptions in a book titled "Measurement of Nursing Outcomes, second edition, volume 3 (2003) edited by Dr Ora La Strickland and Dr Collen Dilorio.

are you looking for tools that measure Nurses and their scores on a self efficacy tool or for patients/clients? 

HI Rosario, as Edwin points out, self-efficacy is task specific, which people often confuse and why the general self-efficacy scale is questionable. I am not sure what specific task you are looking for in nursing, but I have developed an Evidence-Based Practice Self-Efficacy Scale, that measures one's confidence in how to approach and and implement EBP. We have published preliminary validity and reliability of the scale and have further supporting data not yet published. If interested, let me know and I will gladly get you a copy at no cost. We have a request form online at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Hundreds of providers across the country and in several other countries have requested to use the scale. 

Hi Sharon

As mentioned you can construct your own SE tool, but you have to have a good basis for the items you enter. We used national competencies to construct a SE tool for PMH nursing students. We wanted to see if community versus hospital placement mattered

We did not conduct psychometrics on the tool

Fiedler, R., Breitenstein, S. & Delaney, K. D. (2012). As assessment of student confidence in performing psychiatric mental health nursing skills: The impact of the clinical practicum experience. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 18, 244-250.

I have recently developed a self-efficacy scale based on Bandura's theory. The scale assessed critical care nurses' and physicians ability to perform EB measures towards CLABSIs prevention. As previous colleagues commented, you have to develop your own scale. I could send you some literature to start with.

One caution is that to develop a scale that is valid and reliable takes years. Think about your intent and what is needed. For internal purposes, your own scale might be sufficient, but there might also be already developed what you are needing.

I would recommend to look for Banduar's self-efficacy theory. If you are interested in measuring nursing students self-confidence with regard to simulation experince, you may think of " the NLN  Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale". It has been widely used in nursing education and its validity and reliability have been investigated. 

You might also want to look at Locus of Control tools.  Rotter's is the one many use.  Nurses historically have high external locus of control and low internal locus of control.  From their perception then outcomes are controlled by others and not them.  Here's one study example.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2538589

We developed one to specifically look at nursing students confidence to perform particular competencies related to psychiatric mental health nursing. We wanted to know if there were differences in students whose clinical was in community versus hospital based clinical training. As mentioned in the other emails, this was a clinical education evaluation, we did not test the tool

NEVER USE AN EXISTING SCALE UNLESS IT IS WHAT YOU WANT AND CLEARLY DONE--Many are not--they key is whether the items are logically related to what you want to measure--I do not agree that you need to spend years making a scale--the logic of the items are the key--

Dear Edwin, I strongly agree with your observation. Probably, the most logical items, used to intercept the most critical event of what I want to investigate, are the best way.

Of course you need to know how respondents interpret the items but you could find out that by simply talking to them--most of time standard tools are dubious because the items do not match the scale name and the items measures quite different things--even with diverse items you can get scale reliabilities because the items are grouped together in the questionnaire--as a long time reviewer I find that 90% of the time the items are not all logically related to the alleged concept/scale name--

Confidence ratings are often not helpful because people misjudge what they know. In stead of confidence ratings you might want to measure what they actually do know.

I am not saying self efficacy is not a useful concept--it is and is very important--but it is domain specific so you have to make your own scale following Bandura;s guidelines--see his website--