Professional quality of life: A cross‐sectional survey among Chinese clinical nurses

Jie Shen, Hairong Yu, Yuanyuan Zhang and Anli Jiang

Nursing & Health Sciences, 2015, vol. 17, issue 4, 507-515

Abstract: The Professional Quality of Life Scale was adapted to create a Chinese version to investigate the professional quality of life of Chinese nurses and possible risk factors. A cross‐sectional survey was conducted among 752 nurses sampled from four general hospitals in Shanghai, China. An expert panel, cognitive review, and pretest were used to ensure cultural adaptability. Psychometric tests included reliability and validity. One‐way and multivariate analysis of variance were conducted for statistical analysis. Content validity indexes of all items were over 0.90. Five items were excluded because their item‐total correlations and factor loading of exploratory factor analysis were less than 0.3. The 25‐item scale revealed acceptable reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis supported its structure. There was variation in the scores between different departments, religions, working positions, nursing experiences, forms of employment, and average working hours (all P

Date: 2015
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