"Are you ready?" Validation of the Hospital Change Readiness (HCR) Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Organisational change in hospitals is a frequent, seemingly inevitable occurrence. A critical precursor to successful organisational change is change readiness. This paper presents the adaptation of a self-report measure of change readiness for hospital staff, examines its reliability and validity, and evaluates the relationship between hospital change readiness (HCR) and staff well-being.

Methods

The questionnaire was piloted among 153 staff from a large metropolitan, public hospital in Sydney, Australia. The hospital was undergoing a major change involving a multimillion-dollar development project that included a new building and new models of care. Construct validity was evaluated by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and reliability was assessed by internal con

SUBMITTER: Pomare C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451484 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature