Development of a New Instrument to Measure Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and pilot test a new instrument measuring workplace mental health and well-being among health professionals.

Participants and methods

A new survey instrument (hereafter referred to as the Augusta Scale) was developed using Qualtrics on the basis of the 5 essentials in the Office of the Surgeon General's (OSG) framework for workplace mental health and well-being (protection from harm, connection and community, work-life harmony, mattering at work, and opportunity for growth). The Augusta Scale contains 22 core questions (on a 1-5 Likert scale) and several demographic characteristic questions. We piloted the Augusta Scale from May 9, 2023, to June 5, 2023, with health professionals serving as preceptors for the Georgia Area Health Educ

SUBMITTER: MacKinnon NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11827024 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature