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Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop a scale for identifying nursing students' attitudes towards brain drain.  Materials and Methods: The study was conducted between 01.03.2018 and 25.04.2018 and 423 undergraduate nursing students attending 1st- 4th grades which was determined by the purpose sampling method. The research data is obtained from the 5 point likert type scale test form with 35 items.  Results: The fit of the scale to the factor analysis was evaluated with the "Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) coefficient" and "Barlett Sphericity Test". As a result of exploratory factor analysis, 19 items were subtracted from the scale. The remaining 16-item in the draft scale explained 51% of the total variance. The items were grouped under 2 components as "push and pull factors". The factor loadings of the scale ranged from 0.93 to 0.37 and the corrected ıtem- total correlations ranged from 0.81 to 0.34. It has been found that Cronbach Alpha for all scale, first and second components are 0.91; 0.88; and 0.86 irrespectively. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed by the another sample group of 396 nursing students to improve the validity of the scale. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that factor structure fit the data (χ2/ sd= 3.68, RMSEA=0.083, CFI=0.97, NFI=0.96, GFI=0.89, AGFI= 0.86).  Conclusion: The scale is a reliable and a valid tool for measuring the attitudes of the nursing students towards brain drain. The scale should also be tried in different sample groups.

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