Validity and reliability of the Professionalism Assessment Scale in Turkish medical students

Esra Çınar Tanrıverdi, Mehmet Akif Nas, Kamber Kaşali, Mehmet Emin Layık and A M Abd El-Aty

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Medical professionalism is a basic competency in medical education. This study aimed to adapt the Professionalism Assessment Scale, which is used to evaluate the professionalism attitudes of medical students, into Turkish and to assess its validity and reliability. First, the scale’s translation-back-translation was performed and piloted on 30 students. Then, the final scale was applied to medical students to ensure the scale’s validity. The Penn State University College of Medicine Professionalism Questionnaire was used for external validation to assess criterion validity. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed for structure validity. Test-retest, item correlations, split-half analysis, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient were evaluated to determine the scale’s reliability. SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 24.0 package programs were used for statistical analysis. The statistical significance level was accepted as P

Date: 2023
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