A critical enquiry into the psychometric properties of the professional quality of life scale (ProQol-5) instrument |
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| Institution: | 1. Nipissing University, School of Nursing and School of Business, Faculty of Applied and Professional Studies, Canada;2. Nipissing University, School of Business, Faculty of Applied and Professional Studies, Canada;3. Curtin University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Australia;4. School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada;1. Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA;2. Department of Surgery, Nemours AI DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA;3. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;4. Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA;5. Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children''s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA;6. Department of Surgery, Children''s Hospital of New Orleans, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA;7. Department of Surgery, Children''s Hospital of Atlanta, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA;8. Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Box 1508, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA |
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| Abstract: | AimThis study had conducted a comprehensive analysis of the psychometric properties of Proqol 5, professional quality of work instrument among nurses and palliative care-workers on the basis of three independent datasets. The goal is to see the general applicability of this instrument across multiple populations.BackgroundAlthough the Proqol scale has been widely adopted, there are few attempts that have thoroughly analyzed this instrument across multiple datasets using multiple populations.MethodsA questionnaire was developed and distributed to palliative care-workers in Canada and Nurses at two hospitals in Australia and Canada, this resulted in 273 datasets from the Australian and 303 datasets from the Canadian nurses and 503 datasets from the Canadian palliative care-workers. A comprehensive psychometric property analysis was conducted including inter-item correlations, tests of reliability, and both convergent and discriminant validity as well as construct validity analyses. In addition, to test for the reverse coding artifacts in the BO scale, exploratory factor analysis was adopted.ResultsThe psychometric property analysis of Proqol 5 was satisfactory for the compassion satisfaction construct. However, there are concerns with respect to the burnout and secondary trauma stress scales and recommendations are made regarding the coding and specific items which should improve the reliability and validity of these scales.ConclusionThis research establishes the strengths and weaknesses of the Proqol instrument and demonstrates how it can be improved. Through specific recommendations, the academic community is invited to revise the burnout and secondary traumatic stress scales in an effort to improve Proqol 5 measures. |
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