Smith Asa B, Umberfield Elizabeth, Granner Josephine R, Harris Melissa, Liestenfeltz Bradley, Shuman Clayton, Smith Ellen M Lavoie
School of Nursing, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Nurse Educ Today. 2021 Mar;98:104747. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104747. Epub 2021 Jan 9.
High-quality PhD nursing student mentorship facilitates student and program success. Extant literature recommends evaluating and improving mentorship to foster optimal PhD student development. However, a comprehensive measure capturing all aspects of mentorship salient to PhD nursing student wellbeing and success is not available.
The purpose of this pilot study was to develop a new instrument - the Collaboration for Leadership and Innovation in Mentoring (CLIM) - for quantifying important components of PhD student mentorship in nursing, and to preliminarily test its psychometric properties (content validity, sensitivity, test-retest reliability).
The study employed a cross-sectional design.
The CLIM instrument was administered to nursing PhD students at a public state university in the United States.
Sixteen nursing PhD students at various stages in their degree progression completed the instrument.
PhD nursing students developed unique items based on qualitative data collected by the University using an Appreciative Inquiry framework. Seven nursing and non-nursing experts with experience in PhD mentorship evaluated content validity. After revisions, the final 44-item instrument was administered at two time points (one month apart) to allow assessment of test-retest reliability. Test-retest reliability was evaluated using Spearman-rank correlations and data from students with ≥1 year of experience with their mentor.
Response rates were 94% for both administrations (n = 16). The instrument's overall Content Validity Index (CVI) was 0.91 (p = 0.05). Test-retest analyses resulted in high correlations (r = 0.91, p < 0.001), further supporting reliability of the CLIM instrument.
Preliminary evidence suggests that the CLIM instrument is a reliable instrument of PhD mentorship in nursing. However, additional testing in larger and more diverse graduate student populations is needed to evaluate internal consistency reliability, among other psychometric properties.
高质量的博士生护理学生指导有助于学生和项目取得成功。现有文献建议评估和改进指导方式,以促进博士生的最佳发展。然而,目前尚无一种全面的测量方法能够涵盖对博士生护理学生的幸福和成功至关重要的指导的各个方面。
本试点研究的目的是开发一种新工具——指导中的领导力与创新合作(CLIM)——用于量化博士生护理学生指导的重要组成部分,并初步测试其心理测量特性(内容效度、敏感性、重测信度)。
本研究采用横断面设计。
CLIM工具应用于美国一所公立州立大学的护理博士生。
16名处于学位进程不同阶段的护理博士生完成了该工具的测试。
护理博士生根据学校使用赞赏式探询框架收集的定性数据制定独特的项目。7名具有博士生指导经验的护理和非护理专家评估内容效度。修订后,最终的44项工具在两个时间点(相隔一个月)进行施测,以评估重测信度。使用Spearman等级相关性和来自与导师有≥1年经验的学生的数据评估重测信度。
两次施测的回复率均为94%(n = 16)。该工具的总体内容效度指数(CVI)为0.91(p = 0.05)。重测分析显示相关性很高(r = 0.91,p < 0.001),进一步支持了CLIM工具的可靠性。
初步证据表明,CLIM工具是护理领域博士生指导的可靠工具。然而,需要在更大且更多样化的研究生群体中进行额外测试,以评估内部一致性信度等其他心理测量特性。