Development of questionnaire on the perception of hospital's humanistic management for nurses

Abstract

Objective To develop a questionnaire which measures the nurses' perception on humanistic management of hospital.Methods By means of literature analysis and interviewing with nurses,the perception of hospital's humanistic management questionnaire for nurses was developed and used to assess the perception of 360 nurses.Such methods as correlation analysis,exploratory factor analysis,confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis were used to screen and test the questionnaire entries.Results The correlation coefficient between each item and total score was 0.523 ～0.792.The exploratory factor analysis indicated that the perception of hospital's humanistic management questionnaire for nurses was composed of five principal components,the five principal components could explain 66.997％ of the total variance.The indexes of CFA was CFI=0.983,NFI =0.925,RFI=0.907,IFI=0.983,TLI=0.979.Cronbach' α of the total scale was 0.977.Reliability of each subscales was above 0.860.Correlation coefficient between subscales and total scale ranged from 0.777 to 0.929,and that of among subscales ranged from 0.303 to 0.525.Conclusions Reliability and validity of the questionnaire on the perception of hospital's humanistic management for nurses are both satisfactory enough to meet the evaluation of hospital's humanistic management implementation. Key words: Nurses; Humanistic management; Questionnaire; Factor analysis