Sensitivity and specificity of a brief scale to evaluate psychological violence at work in Peruvian health professionals

Abstract

Objective Most studies in Latin America that evaluate psychological violence at work (PVW) focus on measuring occurrences of PVW. However, the discriminative validity and randomness of instruments used for evaluating incidents of PVW that are generated by agents internal to the workplace in the Peruvian health sector have not yet been studied. The objective of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the Scale of Psychological Violence in Health Professionals (SVP-Health) in the Peruvian population. For this purpose, a cross-sectional study based on the two-stage administration of guided surveys and ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve analysis was performed. Results The study included 188 professionals from ten care centres in Peru. The professionals were divided into two groups of 94 subjects: those who had experienced PVW and those who had not. The average age of the participants was 36.8 ± 10.5 years; their work experience ranged between one and 35 years; and 59% of the sample were women. According to an analysis based on the ROC curve, (a) there was a significant area under the curve (AUC = 0.899) with adequate randomness; and (b) the SPV-Health adequately distinguished subjects with PVW from those without PVW (89% versus 94%).

Assessing nature exposure: a study on the reliability and validity of a Portuguese version of the nature exposure scale

“…In accordance with Farrell and Rudd (2009) , establishing the discriminative capability of an instrument necessitates more than just reliability and validity indices. The NES’s sensitivity and specificity analysis, performed using the ROC curve ( Tueros and Santos Rosa, 2022 ), corroborated its capacity to distinguish between groups of participants engaged in professional activities expected to entail varying degrees of exposure to nature.…”

“…To evaluate NES’s ability to differentiate between individuals with varying degrees of nature exposure, a sensitivity and specificity analysis using ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve analysis was conducted ( Tueros and Santos Rosa, 2022 ). This analysis aimed to determine the potential of NES scores to distinguish between individuals with high and low levels of exposure to nature due to their professional activity provided within the survey demographic information (reported in an open-ended questions).…”