Designing a Comprehensive Pattern of Structural-Psychological Empowerment for Employees of Medical Sciences Universities

Background: The concept of empowerment requires the abandonment of traditional models. The need to design and develop employee empowerment patterns has been emphasized in several studies. The present study aims to design a comprehensive structural-psychological empowerment pattern for employees of medical sciences universities. Materials and Methods: Our exploratory research was conducted on 410 employees of medical universities of Tehran, Iran, and Islamic Azad University. Firstly, a primary pattern was designed according to a review of available literature, texts, patterns, and tools. Then, the psychometric analysis was done using validation (face validity, content validity, construct validity, factor validity) and reliability (internal consistency and stability). Lastly, the final pattern was introduced after having been approved by experts. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 24 and AMOS software. P<0.05 was considered as the significance level. Results: Based on our study, 83.9% of participants were holders of bachelor's degrees or higher degrees. The results of validation (face, content, structure, and confirmation validity) and reliability (internal consistency [α=0.90] and stability [0.91] ) showed that the structural-psychological empowerment pattern was appropriate, which was validated with 31 items and 8 domains. The scope of this pattern included resources, self-sufficiency, competence, support, effectiveness, and opportunity, significance, and information domains. The highest impact on the model was related to the support domain (impact factor=0.87). Conclusion: The present pattern is an appropriate and verified Iranian model in the field of structural-psychological empowerment, which is suggested in the cultural context of Iran, especially in medical universities.[GMJ.2019;8:e1486]

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Designing a Comprehensive Pattern of Structural-Psychological Empowerment for Employees of Medical Sciences Universities

10.31661/gmj.v0i0.1486 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Author(s):

Nayereh Sadat Roohollahi ◽

Iravan Masoudi Asl ◽

Somayeh Hesam ◽

Mahmoud Mahmodi

Keyword(s):

Internal Consistency ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Psychological Empowerment ◽

Face Validity ◽

Exploratory Research ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

Significance Level ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Bachelor's Degrees

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Validity and Reliability of the Scale, Role Taking in Caregivers of People with Chronic Disease, ROL

International Archives of Medicine ◽

10.3823/2575 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Mauricio Arias ◽

Sonia Carreño ◽

Lorena Chaparro

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Chronic Disease ◽

Construct Validity ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Content Validity ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Face Validity ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Role Taking ◽

Phase Study

Objective: To determine face, content, and construct validity, and internal consistency of ROL scale. Methods and Findings: A three-phase study was conducted. First, content analysis of the scale was carried out consulting 10 professional experts. Then, face validity was analyzed with 60 caregivers. Finally, construct validity was evaluated by performing an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with 110 participants. Internal consistency of ROL scale was also assessed. Face validity of ROL scale reached a high acceptance index in three dimensions: role performance (0.97), role organization (0.98), and response to the role (0.98). Content validity showed coherence, clarity, and relevance of the scale. From factor analysis, three components emerged and were grouped in the same manner for varimax, quartimax, and equimax rotations. Cronbach's alpha was 0.816, which is an acceptable overall value. Conclusion: ROL scale makes objective the concept of role taking in family caregivers of people with chronic disease. It demonstrated to have acceptable reliability, and construct, face, and content validity to be used in the Colombian context. Keywords: Validation Study, Caregivers, Health Transitions, Chronic Disease.

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Translation and validation of caring behaviors inventory among nurses in Iran

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0254317 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (7) ◽

pp. e0254317

Author(s):

Raziyeh Ghafouri ◽

Malihe Nasiri ◽

Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh ◽

Faraz Tayyar-Iravanlou ◽

Zahra Rahmaty

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Construct Validity ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Face Validity ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Cronbach’S Alpha ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Caring Behaviors ◽

Cronbach's Alpha ◽

Two Factors

Background and objectives Nurses’ caring behaviors, professional activities, and behaviors for the benefit of patients, influence patients’ perception of care and satisfaction with the quality of care provided. Caring behaviors of nurses are contextual and various factors such as patients’ social structure, lifestyle, culture, and interests, as well as their biographical, social, and physiological characteristics, can influence perceptions of caring behaviors of nurses, as caring behaviors are an interactive and mental process between patients and nurses. This study was conducted to provide a transcultural translation and psychometric analysis of Caring Behaviors Inventory (CBI) among nurses in Iran. Methodology Transcultural translation of the 16-item CBI was performed. Then, face validity (qualitative), content validity (quantitative and qualitative), and construct validity were examined in a cross-sectional study of 509 patients. A demographic questionnaire and the 16-item CBI were sent to enrolled patients via online questionnaires. The reliability of the instrument was assessed by internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha. Then, construct validity of the single factor CBI was assessed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Since one factor CBI was not confirmed, construct validity was examined using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The final number of factors was confirmed using CFA. Results The internal consistency of the instrument was good with Cronbach’s alpha 0.89. Based on EFA, the CBI were loaded on two factors, eigenvalues >1, no item was removed. The emergent factors were named "Communicating respectfully" and "Professional knowledge and skill". These two factors explained 50.197% of the total variance. Then, CFA showed an acceptable fit for the two factors CBI. Conclusion The results showed that the Persian version of the 16-item CBI had adequate validity and reliability. Accordingly, this instrument can be used to study nurses’ caring behaviors.

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Validity and Reliability of Lymphoedema Functioning, Disability and Health Questionnaire (Lymph-ICF) Thai Version

Siriraj Medical Journal ◽

10.33192/smj.2021.35 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 73 (4) ◽

pp. 268-274

Author(s):

Kingkaew Pajareya ◽

Chayaporn Chotiyarnwong ◽

Thapanee Sithawatdecha ◽

Rattanaporn Wattanasri

Keyword(s):

Correlation Coefficient ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Face Validity ◽

Expert Committee ◽

Health Questionnaire ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Disability And Health ◽

Study Objective ◽

Retest Reliability ◽

Test Retest Reliability

Objective: The study objective is to adapt the Lymphoedema functioning, disability and health questionnaire (Lymph-ICF) for use in the Thai language and to investigate the validity and reliability of the Thai version.Materials and Methods: This study was done in 5 stages in line with established guidelines for cross-cultural adaptation of self-report measures; 1) Initial translation 2) Synthesis of the translations 3) Back translation 4) Expert committee review and 5) Test of the prefinal version. The face validity was assessed by interview content experts. In the assessment of the validity of the construct, the Spearman correlation coefficient was used to examine the correlations between the scores of the Thai Lymph-ICF and the scores of the Thai EQ-5D-5L. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to establish test-retest reliability while Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the whole questionnaire and of each domain.Results: Fifty participants were evaluated for validity and reliability. Face validity was supported. Construct validity showed strong correlations between the scores of the Thai Lymph-ICF and the scores of the Thai EQ-5D-5L. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were both excellent.Conclusion: The Lymph-ICF Thai version was shown to be both valid and reliable for evaluating the quality of life of patients with breast cancer-related lymphoedema.

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Validation of the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) Instrument in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare ◽

10.5750/ejpch.v6i1.1368 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 12 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Natasa Pilipovic-Broceta ◽

Nadja Vasiljevic ◽

Jelena Marinkovic ◽

Nevena Todorovic ◽

Janko Jankovic ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Chronic Illness ◽

Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Clinical Guidelines ◽

Face Validity ◽

Chronic Obstructive ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Guidelines Implementation ◽

The Republic ◽

The Relationship

Rationale, aims and objectives: To translate, culturally adapt and preliminary validate the original English version of the PACIC questionnaire into the Serbian language, in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina and to assess the relationship between PACIC scores and clinical guidelines implementation in family medicine.Methods: A cross-sectional study was implemented in 2 primary healthcare centers. The translated PACIC questionnaire was administered to 206 consecutive patients with hypertension, diabetes mellitus and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The validity and reliability of the Serbian version of PACIC has been tested with face validity, construct validity and internal consistency. The PACIC score and its 5 subscales were tested using Kruskal-Wallis or Mann-Whitney test. The relationship of the PACIC score and guidelines implementation was analyzed by multiple linear regression.Results: The overall PACIC score indicates an implementation of the Chronic Care Model (CCM) occurred “most of the time”. Of the 5 subscales, average scores were highest on “Delivery system/decision support”. CCM in “Follow up/Coordination” occurred sometimes. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient showed a high internal consistency level for the PACIC questionnaire. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy is 0.917 and Bartlett’s test of sphericity is significant (p≤0.001). Four factors were identified explaining 69% of total variance.Conclusions: There was a significant relationship between the PACIC score and the implementation of the chronic disease clinical guidelines. The PACIC questionnaire is advanced as a reliable and internally consistent instrument of use in increasing the person-centeredness of care of chronic illness.

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Elders Health Empowerment Scale. Spanish adaptation and psychometric analysis

Colombia Medica ◽

10.25100/cm.v45i4.1518 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 179-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Daniel Jorge Luis Serrani Azcurra

Keyword(s):

Internal Consistency ◽

Content Validity ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Short Form ◽

Correlation Coefficients ◽

Face Validity ◽

Psychometric Validation ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

Health Empowerment

Introduction: Empowerment refers to patient skills that allow them to become primary decision-makers in control of daily self-management of health problems. As important the concept as it is, particularly for elders with chronic diseases, few available instruments have been validated for use with Spanish speaking people. Objective: Translate and adapt the Health Empowerment Scale (HES) for a Spanish-speaking older adults sample and perform its psychometric validation. Methods: The HES was adapted based on the Diabetes Empowerment Scale-Short Form. Where “diabetes” was mentioned in the original tool, it was replaced with “health” terms to cover all kinds of conditions that could affect health empowerment. Statistical and Psychometric Analyses were conducted on 648 urban-dwelling seniors. Results: The HES had an acceptable internal consistency with a Cronbach’s α of 0.89. The convergent validity was supported by significant Pearson’s Coefficient correlations between the HES total and item scores and the General Self Efficacy Scale (r= 0.77), Swedish Rheumatic Disease Empowerment Scale (r= 0.69) and Making Decisions Empowerment Scale (r= 0.70). Construct validity was evaluated using item analysis, half-split test and corrected item to total correlation coefficients; with good internal consistency (α> 0.8). The content validity was supported by Scale and Item Content Validity Index of 0.98 and 1.0, respectively. Conclusions: HES had acceptable face validity and reliability coefficients; which added to its ease administration and users’ unbiased comprehension, could set it as a suitable tool in evaluating elder’s outpatient empowerment-based medical education programs.

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Design and Validation of Questionnaires Investigating Access and Utilization of Cervical Cancer Treatment and Palliative Care

Global Journal of Health Science ◽

10.5539/gjhs.v11n1p113 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 113 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Oscar Tapera ◽

Greta Dreyer ◽

Babill Stray-Pedersen ◽

Stephen James Heinrich Hendricks

Keyword(s):

Cervical Cancer ◽

Palliative Care ◽

Cancer Treatment ◽

Health Worker ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Health Workers ◽

Internal Consistency Reliability ◽

Face Validity ◽

Reliability Testing ◽

Validity And Reliability

BACKGROUND: Standardized tools to evaluate access and utilization of cervical cancer treatment and care remain scarce in developing countries. The objective of this study was to validate questionnaires to investigate access and uptake of cervical cancer treatment and palliative care. MATERIALS & METHODS: We designed and validated two questionnaires for patient and community and health worker surveys to determine the main constructs of each of the draft questionnaires. Pilot data was collected randomly amongst 50 patient and community participants and 14 health workers respectively in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. Content and face validity were assessed qualitatively from expert evaluations. Construct validity, reliability and internal consistency testing were conducted using exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha correlation coefficient respectively. RESULTS: Twelve (12) experienced researchers, based on convenience, reviewed the questionnaires and validated their draft constructs based on experience and literature. Each of the questionnaires was sub-divided into 4 separate mini-questionnaires respectively. All the eight mini-questionnaires were analyzed independently and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin coefficients ranged from 0.5-0.9 and Bartlett’s sphericity tests were all significant, p<0.001, showing promising good constructs. Patient and community questionnaire had 15 meaningful constructs while the health worker questionnaire had 13. Cronbach’s alpha (α) coefficients for internal consistency reliability testing of all the final constructs were greater than the minimum acceptable threshold of 0.70. CONCLUSION: This analysis revealed the validity and reliability of questionnaires that could be used to evaluate access and utilization of cervical cancer treatment and palliative care in countries affected by the disease.

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The relationship between managers’ ideal intelligence as a hybrid model and employees’ organizational commitment: a case study in Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine ◽

10.18502/jmehm.v14i8.6752 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hossein Dargahi ◽

Fereshteh Veysi

Keyword(s):

Organizational Commitment ◽

Middle Level ◽

Spiritual Intelligence ◽

Face Validity ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

Hybrid Intelligence ◽

Vice Chancellors ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Ideal

High ideal hybrid intelligence of managers is among the factors that can improve employees’ organizational commitment. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between managers’ ideal hybrid intelligence and employees’ organizational commitment in the Vice Chancellors’ Headquarters of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. This was a descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study conducted in 2017 - 2018. The research sample size consisted of 86 senior and middle-level managers selected through census method, as well as 181 employees, selected using the Kerjecie and Morgan table. The research tool was an ideal hybrid intelligence questionnaire consisting of 102 questions on cultural, moral and spiritual intelligence, and also Meyer and Allens’ organizational commitment questionnaire including 24 questions. Face validity and reliability of each questionnaire were confirmed by an expert panel and Chronbach’s alpha method. The data were analyzed by SPSS software, and descriptive results were shown through mean and standard deviation, and analytical results by inferential tests. The results showed that the ideal hybrid intelligence of the Vice Chancellors’ Headquarters managers and employees’ organizational commitment were at a desirable level. Also, there was a significant correlation between cultural, moral and spiritual intelligence as constituents of the ideal hybrid intelligence of managers and employees’ organizational commitment. We found that ideal hybrid intelligence may affect employees’ organizational commitment, but it should be mentioned that other forms of intelligence may also affect organizational commitment.

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Nutrition knowledge and Attitude in Medical Students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2017-2018

10.21203/rs.2.13353/v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Neda Dolatkhah ◽

Seyed Kazem Shakouri ◽

Azizeh Farshbaf Khalili ◽

Majid Hajifaraji ◽

Maryam Hashemian ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Clinical Training ◽

Knowledge Score ◽

Nutrition Knowledge ◽

Face Validity ◽

Nutritional Knowledge ◽

Attitude Questionnaire ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

Knowledge And Attitude

Abstract Objectives: This study aimed at determining the nutritional knowledge and attitude of medical students through clinical training courses (externship and internship) of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. A total of 220 medical students enrolled in this descriptive cross-sectional study through simple random sampling during 2017-2018. A nutritional knowledge questionnaire included 51 questions was used to determine the correct, perceived and accuracy of knowledge of the participant in different aspects of nutrition sciences. The questions of nutritional attitude were resulted from questionnaires of similar studies and valid books on nutrition. The attitude questionnaire included 29 questions. The nutrition knowledge and attitude questionnaire were confirmed in terms of the content and face validity and reliability. Results: The median knowledge score, median perceived knowledge and median accuracy knowledge score of the participants was 67.44%, 100% and 66.22% respectively. Results showed that most of the participants (49.61% of externs and 57.14% of inters) had a poor knowledge. The highest level of students' knowledge was in the field of general nutrition. The mean [SD] attitude index of the subjects was 107.12 [13.54] out of 145. Most students had a very appropriate attitude toward nutrition with a frequency of 204 (92.7%).

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Design and Psychometrics of the Assessment Instrument for Innovation Capabilities of Medical Sciences Universities Using the Cube Model Approach

Iranian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.18502/ijph.v49i2.3097 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mashallah TORABI ◽

Reza SAFDARI ◽

Saharnaz NEDJAT ◽

Kazem MOHAMMAD ◽

Maryam GOODARZI ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Content Validity ◽

Academic Culture ◽

Assessment Instrument ◽

Face Validity ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

Cronbach’S Alpha ◽

Cronbach's Alpha ◽

The Face ◽

Model Approach

Background: To investigate any subject, a scholar needs a suitable instrument to collect the required information with the utmost accuracy and the least amount of error. Therefore, this study aimed at designing and conducting a psychometric analysis of an assessment instrument for innovation capabilities of Medical Sciences Universities using the Cube Model Approach. Methods: This study began by searching in questionnaires in the fields of input and process, considering innovation outcomes. Accordingly, a preliminary questionnaire was developed, and in the second stage, to determine the validity of the designed instrument, the face validity, content validity, and construct validity of the instrument were approved, and in the third stage, using Cronbach's alpha, its reliability was assessed. At first 200 phrases were obtained, finally, 25 questions were initially approved in three areas of structure (input), innovation processes, and output. All the phrases were retained in the face validity and content validity carried out quantitatively and qualitatively. Results: Exploratory Factor Analysis was performed on 25 items, and finally the terms were set in six factors. These factors explained 53.19% of the total variance. The rotated factor loading for all questions was obtained more than 0.3, and therefore, no questions were eliminated. Calculation of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient confirmed the high internal consistency of the questionnaire (0.762). Conclusion: This instrument was designed for the first time in the context of Iranian academic culture and seems to be a suitable instrument for the assessment of innovation capabilities, considering its adequate validity and reliability, simplicity, and practicality.

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