Dai Lina, Wu Tingting, Hu Yun, Song Jinlin
Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing, China.
J Eval Clin Pract. 2025 Feb;31(1):e70031. doi: 10.1111/jep.70031.
To establish and validate a short scale of critical thinking ability for dental residents based on the Byrnes theory.
Two hundred and thirty-four dental residents in total from Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University were divided into development group and validation group randomly. In the development phase, the content validation and the initial reduction was underwent by the modified Delphi method. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and reliability test was used to validate the scale in the evaluation phase.
We developed a 21 items scale after two rounds of expert consultation via Delphi method. In the evaluation phase, no significant sociodemographic difference was found among the 234 participants. Fifteen items extracted three factors and CFA results indicated acceptable goodness-of-fit indices of this scale. The scale was with a good internal consistency and reliability.
This version of critical thinking scale for the Chinese dental residents was considered to be more feasible for application in the clinical practice and dental education.
基于伯恩斯理论建立并验证一个针对牙科住院医师的批判性思维能力简短量表。
重庆医科大学附属口腔医院的234名牙科住院医师被随机分为开发组和验证组。在开发阶段，采用改进的德尔菲法进行内容效度验证和初步简化。在评估阶段，使用探索性因素分析（EFA）、验证性因素分析（CFA）和信度测试来验证该量表。
通过两轮德尔菲法专家咨询，我们开发了一个包含21个条目的量表。在评估阶段，234名参与者之间未发现显著的社会人口统计学差异。15个条目提取出三个因素，CFA结果表明该量表的拟合指数可接受。该量表具有良好的内部一致性和信度。
这个针对中国牙科住院医师的批判性思维量表版本被认为在临床实践和牙科教育中应用更可行。
