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A new Health Humanities Competence Scale (HHCS) for healthcare professional students (HPS) was developed. This 19-item scale reliably measures humanistic abilities in self, family, and professional contexts.

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  • Medical Education
  • Health Humanities
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Healthcare professionals require enhanced health and humanities awareness.
  • A validated Health Humanities Competence Scale (HHCS) for healthcare professional students (HPS) was previously unavailable.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an original HHCS for HPS.
  • To measure humanistic abilities in HPS across self, family, and professional domains.

Main Methods:

  • Observational design utilizing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for factor extraction.
  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to assess reliability and validity.
  • Model fit assessment using established indices.

Main Results:

  • PCA identified three factors: self, family, and profession-related health and humanities.
  • The 19-item HHCS explained 65.44% of the total variance with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.92.
  • CFA confirmed a second-order factor (HHCS for HPS) with satisfactory model fit and strong convergent validity with empathy scores.

Conclusions:

  • The three-factor, 19-item HHCS is a reliable and valid tool for assessing health humanities competencies in university healthcare students.
  • The scale provides a useful measurement for evaluating humanistic abilities in HPS.
  • Further validation with larger samples is recommended.