Stress of Conscience Questionnaire (SCQ): exploring dimensionality and psychometric properties at a tertiary hospital in Australia Jokwiro, Y, Pascoe, E, Edvardsson, K, Rahman, MA, McDonald, E, Lood, Q and Edvardsson, D 2020, Stress of Conscience Questionnaire (SCQ): exploring dimensionality and psychometric properties at a tertiary hospital in Australia, BMC Psychology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1186/s40359-020-00477-3. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads rahman-stressofconscience-2020.pdf Published version application/pdf 1012.65KB 10 Title Stress of Conscience Questionnaire (SCQ): exploring dimensionality and psychometric properties at a tertiary hospital in Australia Author(s) Jokwiro, Y Pascoe, E Edvardsson, K Rahman, MA orcid.org/0000-0003-1665-7966 McDonald, E Lood, Q Edvardsson, D Journal name BMC Psychology Volume number 8 Issue number 1 Article ID 109 Start page 1 End page 10 Total pages 10 Publisher BMC Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2020-10-20 ISSN 2050-7283 Keyword(s) Stress of conscience Psychometrics Dimensionality Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis Health professionals Summary Background: This study explored the psychometric properties and dimensionality of the Stress of Conscience Questionnaire (SCQ) in a sample of health professionals from a tertiary-level Australian hospital. The SCQ, a measure of stress of conscience, is a recently developed nine-item instrument for assessing frequently encountered stressful situations in health care, and the degree to which they trouble the conscience of health professionals. This is relevant because stress of conscience has been associated with negative experiences such as job strain and/or burnout. The validity of SCQ has not been explored beyond Scandinavian contexts. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 253 health professionals was undertaken in 2015. The analysis involved estimates of reliability, variability and dimensionality. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to explore dimensionality and theoretical model fit respectively. Results: Cronbach’s alpha of 0.84 showed internal consistency reliability. All individual items of the SCQ (N = 9) met the cut-off criteria for item-total correlations (> 0.3) indicating acceptable homogeneity. Adequate variability was confirmed for most of the items, with some items indicating floor or ceiling effects. EFA retained a single latent factor with adequate factor loadings for a unidimensional structure. When the two‐factor model was compared to the one‐factor model, the latter achieved better goodness of fit supporting a one-factor model for the SCQ. Conclusion: The SCQ, as a unidimensional measure of stress of conscience, achieved adequate reliability and variability in this study. Due to unidimensionality of the tool, summation of a total score can be a meaningful way forward to summarise and communicate results from future studies, enabling international comparisons. However, further exploration of the questionnaire in other cultures and clinical settings is recommended to explore the stability of the latent one-factor structure. Language eng DOI 10.1186/s40359-020-00477-3 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1701 Psychology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2020, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30144798 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Medicine Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 02 Nov 2020, 07:39:47 EST Tue, 03 Nov 2020, 04:01:31 EST Tue, 03 Nov 2020, 06:27:08 EST Tue, 12 Jan 2021, 05:12:37 EST Wed, 20 Jan 2021, 11:05:51 EST Wed, 20 Jan 2021, 11:08:49 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 12 Abstract Views, 10 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 02 Nov 2020, 07:39:47 EST

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