Development of a revised Jalowiec Coping Scale for use by emergency clinicians: a cross-sectional scale development study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure the coping strategies used by emergency staff in response to workplace stress. To achieve this aim, we developed a refined Jalowiec Coping Scale (JCS), termed the Jalowiec Coping Scale-Emergency Department (JCS-ED) and validated this scale on a sample of emergency clinicians.

Design

A cross-sectional survey incorporating the JCS, the working environment scale-10 and a measure of workplace stressors was administered between July 2016 and June 2017. The JCS-ED was developed in three stages: 1) item reduction through content matter experts, 2) exploratory factor analysis for further item reduction and to identify the factor structure of the revised scale and 3) confirmatory factor analyses to confir

SUBMITTER: Greenslade JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003388 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature