The development of a questionnaire for evaluating process-oriented group supervision during nursing education
2008 (English)In: Nurse Education in Practice, ISSN 1471-5953, E-ISSN 1873-5223, Vol. 8, no 2, p. 88-93Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The benefits of process-oriented group supervision are difficult to evaluate, as the validity and reliability of the existing instruments have been questioned. The aim was to develop and test the psychometric properties of a questionnaire in order to evaluate the effects of process-oriented group supervision on nursing students during their three-year nursing education. A 55-item Process-oriented Group Supervision Questionnaire (PGSQ) with a developmental design was formulated on the basis of a literature review and the expectations of nursing students who participated in a three-year nursing education programme (N = 176). Construct validity and internal consistency reliability were tested at the end of each study year: year 1 (T1), year 2 (T2), and year 3 (T3) by means of exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach’s coefficient. An adequate explorative factor analysis (principal component analysis, varimax rotation) with an Eigenvalue >1.0 and factor loadings >0.40, reduced the questionnaire to 18 items comprising three factors labelled educative, supportive and developmental, which explained 60.2% at T1, 71.8% at T2, and 69.3% at T3 of the total cumulative variance. The corresponding Cronbach’s coefficient figures were 0.89 (T1), 0.94 (T2) and 0.93 (T3). The 18-item PGSQ is considered to be a short and useful tool due to its satisfactory validity and reliability figures.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008. Vol. 8, no 2, p. 88-93
Keywords [en]
Nursing student, Questionnaires, Reliability, Supervision, Validity
National Category
Nursing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1330DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2007.04.006PubMedID: 18291325Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-39149126319Local ID: 2082/1709OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-1330DiVA, id: diva2:238548
2008-04-162008-04-162018-03-23Bibliographically approved