Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran.
Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
BMC Psychol. 2022 Mar 16;10(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s40359-022-00778-9.
There is no valid and reliable tool to measure COVID-19 healthcare stress felt by healthcare students. A scale was developed to assess COVID-19 stress in healthcare students and its psychometrics was examined.
This is a two phases mixed-method study including a qualitative stage consisting of student interview and literature review to develop content of the tool. In the quantitative stage, the psychometrics of the scale was examined in 2020-2021.
The COVID-19 related healthcare student stress scale (CHSSS) featured five factors including fear of catching coronavirus, social constraints, changes in education, non-compliance of health protocols and worrying news and overload information, which totally explained 51.75% of the total variance.
Validity and reliability of CHSSS with 17 items were supported to measure COVID-19 stress in healthcare students as a self-assessment tool. Researchers can utilize this tool to assess COVID-19 stress in healthcare students and introduce policies and intervention especially designed for healthcare students.
目前尚无有效且可靠的工具来衡量医学生所感受到的 COVID-19 医护压力。本研究开发了一种评估医学生 COVID-19 压力的量表,并对其心理测量学特性进行了检验。
这是一项两阶段混合方法研究,包括定性阶段(学生访谈和文献复习以确定工具的内容)和定量阶段(2020-2021 年检验量表的心理测量学特性)。
COVID-19 相关医学生压力量表(CHSSS)包括五个因素,包括对感染冠状病毒的恐惧、社会限制、教育变化、不遵守卫生规范、担心新闻和信息过载,共解释了总方差的 51.75%。
17 项条目组成的 CHSSS 具有良好的效度和信度,可作为自我评估工具用于测量医学生的 COVID-19 压力。研究人员可以利用该工具评估医学生的 COVID-19 压力,并为医学生制定专门的政策和干预措施。