Abstract
Background:
Instruments that measure exposure to bullying and harassment of students learning in a clinical workplace environment (CWE) that contain validity evidence are scarce. The aim of this study was to develop such a measure and provide some validity evidence for its use.
Method:
We took an instrument for detecting bullying of employees in the workplace, called the Negative Acts Questionnaire–Revised (NAQ-R). Items on the NAQ-R were adapted to align with our context of health professional students learning in a CWE and added two new factors of sexual and ethnic harassment. This new instrument, named the Clinical Workplace Learning NAQ-R, was distributed to 540 medical and nursing undergraduate students and we undertook a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to investigate its construct validity and factorial structure.
Results:
The results provided support for the construct validity and factorial structure of the new scale comprising five factors: workplace learning-related bullying (WLRB), person-related bullying (PRB), physically intimidating bullying (PIB), sexual harassment (SH), and ethnic harassment (EH). The reliability estimates for all factors ranged from 0.79 to 0.94.
Conclusion:
This study provides a tool to measure the exposure to bullying and harassment in health professional students learning in a CWE.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 813-821 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Medical Teacher |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Jul 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |