Avtor/Urednik		Smrekar, Martina; Zaletel-Kragelj, Lijana; Petrak, Olivera; Franko, Alenka
Naslov		Validation of the Croatian version of the Sense of Coherence 29-item scale in Croatian nurses
Prevedeni naslov		Ovrednotenje hrvaške verzije dolgega vprašalnika o občutku koherentnosti (SOC-29) pri medicinskih sestrah
Tip		članek
Vol. in št.		Letnik 59, št. 3
Leto izdaje		2020
Obseg		str. 155-163
ISSN		0351-0026 - Zdravstveno varstvo : Slovenian journal of public health
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		Introduction: The aim of the study was to validate the Croatian version of the Sense of Coherence 29-item instrument (SOC-29) within a nursing population. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2017 and June 2018 at the University Hospital Centre Sisters of Mercy (UHCSM) in Zagreb, Croatia. A total of 711 nurses participated in this study. Internal consistency reliability was evaluated using Cronbach%s alpha coefficient (%), while the structure of the questionnaire was verified by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) (method of extraction: principal component analysis (PCA)) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results: The instrument demonstrated high internal consistency (%=0.885). PCA analysis has identified five factors that together account for 48% of the variance. However, the observed factors could not be interpreted. In the CFA, none of the models fitted well, although the fit of the three-factor model (CMIN/DF=4.786, CFI=0.767, RMSEA=0.073) was slightly better in comparison with the one-factor model (CMIN/DF=6.072, CFI=0.685, RMSEA=0.084). As the three-factor model in PCA has been shown to be uninterpretable, and all three factors were mutually positive and significantly correlated (correlation coefficients: 0.365-0.521), this indicated a single factor in the background. All items also showed saturation with the first factor (accounting for 25.7% of the variance). Conclusions: The Croatian version of the SOC-29 instrument successfully fulfilled the necessary psychometric criteria for being used on the population of Croatian nurses. The study proposes that potential users use the single-factor structure.
Proste vsebinske oznake		občutek koherentnosti SOC-29 veljavnost zanesljivost medicina dela medicinske sestre Sense of Coherence SOC-29 instrument validity reliability occupational medicine nurses