Objective To translate the English version of ethical sensitivity questionnaire for nursing students(ESQ-NS) into chinese, and test its reliability and validity.

Methods Strictly following the Brislin translation mode, the English version of ESQ-NS was translated, translated back and adjusted to form the Chinese version of ESQ-NS.The convenience sampling method was used to test the reliability and validity in 226 nursing students from a university by questionnaire.

Results The Chinese version of ESQ-NS contained 11 items including respect for individuals, distributive justice and protection of patients′ privacy.The content validity of each item level was 0.833-1.000, and the content validity of scale level was 0.933.Three common factors were extracted using the exploratory factor analysis, the cumulative variance contribution rate was 76.393%, and the factor load of each item was 0.723-0.914.The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model was basically fit.The Cronbach′s α coefficient of the total amount table was 0.926, and the Cronbach′s α coefficient of each dimension was 0.803-0.931.The half-fold reliability of the total amount table was 0.870, and the half-fold reliability of each dimension was 0.804-0.912.

Conclusions The Chinese version of ESQ-NS has good reliability and validity, which can be used to evaluate the ethical sensitivity of nursing students in China.