Psychometric Properties of Persian Version of the Short-Form Workplace Social Capital Questionnaire for Female Health Workers

Firouzbakht, Mojgan; Tirgar, Aram; Ebadi, Abbas; Nia, Hamid Sharif; Oksanen, Tuula; Kouvonen, Anne; Riahi, Mohammad Esmaeil

doi:10.15171/ijoem.2018.1264

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“…This coincides with previous studies [14][15][16]. A previous study in Iran [28] that investigated female health workers demonstrated that trust and social participation in the workplace are beneficial to nurses, patients, and the organization, through improved communication, teamwork, and access to greater information, support, and resources.…”

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Continuous Work Support Checklist for Female Healthcare Workers: Scale Development and Validation

Ono

Nagasawa

Tsuchiya

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Healthcare jobs are very popular among women, however in Japan, women readily quit working because of gender-role responsibilities. This study aimed to develop a workplace support checklist for women to continue to work. In 2017, we investigated 780 (female 74.8%) faculty members and healthcare professionals of one medical university in Japan. We asked them to score the extent to which they considered 35 items identified by a task team, to be related to continuous work support for female workers in healthcare. We carried out an exploratory factor analysis and extracted four domains with 16 items in all: “Support for child rearing and home care” (five items), “Information dissemination” (five items), “Active promotion of women workers to higher positions” (three items), and “Consulting and counseling service” (three items), with Cronbach’s alpha values ranging from 0.88 to 0.92. We found that the first three factors were generally associated with reasonably relevant characteristics of being female, in their 30s, married, and members of faculty. We also found that women with “Intention to leave” the workplace underscored the importance of “Support for child rearing and home care” and “Consulting and counseling service”. These results suggest that the checklist is reliable and valid.

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Section: Interpretation Of the Findingssupporting

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Continuous Work Support Checklist for Female Healthcare Workers: Scale Development and Validation

Ono

Nagasawa

Tsuchiya

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…The objective of content validity was to determine whether or not the content of the instrument is capable of measuring the defined objective. 25 To do so, we used both qualitative and quantitative methods and asked the opinion of 12 experts in the field of health education, public health, occupational health, industrial safety, and psychology. In content validity assessment, the experts were asked to conduct a qualitative assessment of the instrument based on the criteria of compliance with grammar, using the right words, the right placement of items, as well as the right scoring, and provide the necessary feedback, based on which some modifications were made to the instrument.…”

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Development and Validation of the Health Literacy Scale for Workers

Azizi

Karimy

Abedini

et al. 2019

Int J Occup Environ Med

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Background: Health literacy has received growing attention in recent years to reduce health disparities. Health literate individuals can gain access, understand and use health information to maintain, improve and promote good health. Objective: To develop and assess the psychometric properties of a tool for the measurement of health literacy among workers, the Health Literacy Scale for Workers (HELSW). Methods: 15 companies were selected from the factories of the industrial city of Saveh. 450 (400 male and 50 female) workers from Saveh, Iran, were selected through a multistage random sampling. The study had two stages—a qualitative and a quantitative stage. In the qualitative phase, the workers' beliefs were extracted based on 61 in-depth interviews. Content validity was assessed with the help of 12 experts in the field of health education, public health and occupational health. Also, face validity was evaluated through interviewing with 20 workers. In the quantitative phase, the reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated by measuring the internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The construct validity was assessed by the principal component analysis using varimax rotation. Results: In the exploratory factor analysis, six domains (ie, access, reading, understanding, assessment, decision making and applying health information, and self-efficacy) with 34 items were loaded; the model explained 64.3% of the total variance. Intraclass correlation coefficient and test-retest reliability ranged from 0.72 to 0.84 and 0.69 to 0.86, respectively. Conclusion: It seems that the developed Persian questionnaire, HELSW, is a reliable and valid measure of the health literacy in workers.

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“…The essence of a scientifically valid concept analysis pivots on identifying these defining attributes. Numerous characteristics of social capital have been identified in nursing publications (Andersen et al, ; Chang, Huang, Chiang, Hsu, & Chang, ; Chang, Chu, Liao, Chang, & Teng, ; DiCicco‐Bloom et al, ; Ernstmann et al, ; Firouzbakht et al, ; Hofmeyer, , ; Hofmeyer & Marck, ; Hsu et al, ; Jafari, Pourtaleb, & Khodayari‐Zarnaq, ; Kowalski et al, ; Laschinger, Read, Wilk, & Finegan, ; Middleton et al, ; Norikoshi, Kobayashi, & Tabuchi, ; Pesut, ; Read, ; Read & Laschinger, ; Sheingold, Hofmeyer, & Woolcock, ; Sheingold & Sheingold, ; Shin & Lee, , ; Tei‐Tominaga & Nakanishi, ; Vagharseyyedin et al, ; Van Bogaert, Kowalski, Weeks, & Clarke, ; Vardaman et al, ) (Appendix A). However, five of these characteristics, Relational Network, Trust, Shared Understanding, Reciprocity and Social Cohesion, are the most frequently stated in the literature; thereby, these attributes have been considered as the essential determining attributes of nurses’ workplace social capital (Walker & Avant, ).…”

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A contemporary understanding of nurses’ workplace social capital: A response to the rapid changes in the nursing workforce

Kunaviktikul

Akkadechanunt

et al. 2020

J Nurs Manag

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Aim To provide an updated definition of the concept of nurses’ workplace social capital that addresses changes in the contemporary nursing workforce. Background Social capital explains the components of a constructive work environment. Advancements in psychology of workplace and changes in the demographic structure of nursing workforce call for a revised version of nurses’ workplace social capital. Method Walker and Avant's approach was implemented. Data were compiled from ‘Medline’ and ‘CINAHL’, ‘Google’ search engine, book chapters and expertise of nursing academicians. Results Nurses’ workplace social capital is a relational network that is configured by interactions among healthcare professionals. Although, various attributes influence these interactions, Relational Network, Trust, Shared Understanding, Reciprocity and Social Cohesion are considered as the major attributes. A healthy relational network creates a healthy workplace which can be further fortified by effective communication, active group engagements and a supportive leadership. Conclusions Results of our concept analysis should establish a theoretical groundwork for nurse leaders to better build and more effectively lead the contemporary nursing workforce. Implication for Nursing Management Leaders’ dedication to workplace social capital is the tenet of a constructive workplace, which in return can support nurses to flourish in their clinical and the other professional responsibilities.

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Psychometric Properties of Persian Version of the Short-Form Workplace Social Capital Questionnaire for Female Health Workers

Cited by 18 publications

References 31 publications

Continuous Work Support Checklist for Female Healthcare Workers: Scale Development and Validation

Continuous Work Support Checklist for Female Healthcare Workers: Scale Development and Validation

Development and Validation of the Health Literacy Scale for Workers

A contemporary understanding of nurses’ workplace social capital: A response to the rapid changes in the nursing workforce

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