Development and psychometric properties of the Inner Strength Scale

Lundman, Berit; Viglund, Kerstin; Aléx, Lena; Jonsén, Elisabeth; Norberg, Astrid; Fischer, Regina Santamäki; Strandberg, Gunilla; Nygren, Björn

doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2011.03.006

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“…Like other researchers in this area (11,14,20,26,27) we found a variety of self-reported stressors and needs in coping to reduce e.g. work-based stress, personal inner strength, organizational arrangements, emotional exhaustion, and feelings of lack of personal accomplishment.…”

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Psychosocial Workload of Swedish Ambulance and Emergency Room Personnel with High Prevalence of Dying, Death and Grieving Relatives. A Descriptive and Comparison Study

Johansson¹,

Johansson²,

Grimby

2014

AJNS

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Frequent caretaking of severely ill, dying, and dead people as well as bereaved close relatives could involve too much stress for emergency personnel to be satisfied with the job situation. Screening for critical aspects for work satisfaction and endurance at ambulance and emergency rooms would provide useful information to the workers themselves, their management, and for pre-hospital acute routines/programs. Two hundred and forty 40-item job-related, postal enquieries on demographical, as psychological, social, economical, and existential work aspects were sent to 26 clinical directors to be assessed by personnel at the ambulance and emergency rooms in Sweden. The response rate was 64%, the majority being nurses and nurse assistants, experiencing a very high, high, or rather high prevalence of severely ill or dead patients at their work place. The hospitals' frequency of severely ill or dead patients predicted a higher mental workload experience in both ambulance and emergency room personnel. More personnel at the emergency rooms compared with ambulance workers expressed time pressure and were less satisfied with their caretaking, two of three reporting their job to be mentally straining as compared with one of three among the ambulance personnel. Change of work due to heavy workload was reported by one in three. The majority thought they could get used to a job with death and grieving, wellbeing however negatively affected. Still, the majority reported good health and little sick leave due to excessive workload. Several critical factors seemed important for job satisfaction among Swedish ambulance workers and personnel at the emergency rooms. Complaints about psychological stress, physically high workload, physical damage, many working hours, low salary, much shift-and night work, better vacation leave, more resources, too little time for recovery, crisis support and guidance, better routines, more explicit care programs including improved bereavement support for relatives, better possibilities for job control, self-efficacy, unit efficiency, and clearer work duties, and a family-non-conflicting job situation could favour work performance in both groups.

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“…Various personal characteristics of stress preventive nature, as well as beneficial coping strategies in emergency service personnel have been shown to be crucial in research among emergency health care teams (9)(10)(11). However, the nature of these characteristics may vary and may also be difficult to separate.…”

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Psychosocial Workload of Swedish Ambulance and Emergency Room Personnel with High Prevalence of Dying, Death and Grieving Relatives. A Descriptive and Comparison Study

Johansson¹,

Johansson²,

Grimby

2014

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“…The ISS has shown good psychometric properties with Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0·86 on the ISS items and a test–retest ( n = 31) on the ISS was r = 0·79 (Lundman et al . ). In the present study, Cronbach's alpha was 0·92.…”

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“…ISS was a reflective construct based on the four dimensions of the ISS (Lundman et al . ). Finally, SRH was a reflective construct based on the two SF36 questions.…”

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Inner strength as a mediator of the relationship between disease and self‐rated health among old people

Viglund

Jonsén

Strandberg

et al. 2013

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Inner strength, coping self‐efficacy and coping strategy of patients with peritoneal dialysis: A exploratory cross‐sectional study

Yang,

Shan,

Gao

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AimThe purpose of the study was to investigate and analyse inner strength of patients with peritoneal dialysis, explore the associations among inner strength, coping self‐efficacy (CSE) and medial coping modes.DesignThis was a cross‐sectional study which was conducted in nephrology departments of two affiliated hospitals of a comprehensive university in China. Convenience sampling was chosen to collect data.MethodsA total of 191 patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis were recruited by convenience sampling in two hospitals. Data involved of sociodemographic and clinical materials, inner strength, CSE and medical coping modes were collected from the patients. IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 was used to process and analyse the data.ResultsThe averaged score of inner strength was 95.74 (SD = 13.52). The inner strength, CSE and confrontation coping had positive associations with each other. Besides, inner strength and CSE was negatively associated with acceptance–resignation coping strategy, respectively.

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Development and psychometric properties of the Inner Strength Scale

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

Psychosocial Workload of Swedish Ambulance and Emergency Room Personnel with High Prevalence of Dying, Death and Grieving Relatives. A Descriptive and Comparison Study

Psychosocial Workload of Swedish Ambulance and Emergency Room Personnel with High Prevalence of Dying, Death and Grieving Relatives. A Descriptive and Comparison Study

Inner strength as a mediator of the relationship between disease and self‐rated health among old people

Inner strength, coping self‐efficacy and coping strategy of patients with peritoneal dialysis: A exploratory cross‐sectional study

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