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Development of a Scale to Measure an Unemployment Syndrome: Items Generation and Content Validity
Author(s) -
Bocchino Anna,
Lepiani Diaz Isabel,
Medialdea Maria Jesus,
Gilart Cantizano Ester,
Dueñas Rodríguez María
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of nursing knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2047-3095
pISSN - 2047-3087
DOI - 10.1111/2047-3095.12261
Subject(s) - biopsychosocial model , content validity , scale (ratio) , unemployment , psychology , identification (biology) , quality (philosophy) , applied psychology , content (measure theory) , clinical psychology , psychometrics , nursing , medicine , psychiatry , philosophy , physics , botany , epistemology , quantum mechanics , economics , biology , economic growth , mathematical analysis , mathematics
PURPOSE To develop a scale for a group of symptoms based on the unemployment syndrome. METHODS The development consisted of four phases: (I) review of literature, (II) concept elicitation, (III) concept selection and item construction, and (IV) content validation. FINDINGS Twenty final items that were established as adequate for being included in the instrument. CONCLUSION The unemployment syndrome scale could be used to identify the needs and sintomatology of unemployed people and support the identification of the syndrome. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE The instrument makes it possible to assess the symptomatology specific to the syndrome and to record properly the assessment of the biopsychosocial conditions on the part of the nursing profession for providing quality comprehensive care.