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Reliability and Validity of Measures Commonly Utilized to Assess Nurse Well-Being
Nursing Research
|June 6, 2024
Summary
This study validates brief measures for assessing nurse well-being, finding them reliable and valid in diverse nursing populations. These tools can help improve nursing workforce well-being through routine assessments.
Area of Science:
- Nursing workforce health
- Psychometric validation
- Healthcare quality improvement
Background:
- A healthy nursing workforce is crucial for quality patient care.
- Assessing nurse well-being requires validated, brief psychometric tools.
- Existing measures are often tested on limited or specific nursing groups.
Purpose of the Study:
- To psychometrically test commonly used nurse well-being measures.
- To evaluate these measures in a diverse sample of nurses.
- To support the use of reliable and valid tools for assessing nurse well-being.
Main Methods:
- Cross-sectional, survey-based study.
- Convenience sample of 177 nurses across acute care settings.
- Utilized measures including Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, WHO Well-Being Index, Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale, and Mini-Z.
Main Results:
- All assessed measures demonstrated internal reliability.
- Brief well-being measures showed convergent validity with longer scales.
- Significant correlations confirmed the validity of the brief instruments.
Conclusions:
- Validated brief measures support routine assessment of nurse well-being in diverse settings.
- Reliable and valid tools are essential for evaluating interventions to promote nurse well-being.
- These psychometrically sound, low-burden measures can inform health system leaders.
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