Translation, validation and psychometric properties of Effort-Reward Imbalance questionnaire among nurses in Vietnam.

ABSTRACT: We translated the Effort-Reward imbalance questionnaire, an instrument for measuring work stress, into the Vietnamese language and investigated its psychometric properties among nurses in Vietnam. In a hospital-based cross-sectional study design, we sampled and interviewed 207 nurses working full-time (response rate 83%). We evaluated the internal consistency using standardized Cronbach's alpha coefficients and structural validity using confirmatory factor analysis. Discriminative validity was assessed by comparing the measured scores between age groups, gender, education levels, income groups, and job positions. In addition, we confirmed the criterion validity by investigating its association with self-reported health using simple and multiple logistic regression models. Most of the parti

SUBMITTER: Nguyen PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8855701 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature