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dc.contributor.authorHeritage, B.
dc.contributor.authorRees, Clare
dc.contributor.authorHegney, D.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18T07:59:58Z
dc.date.available2018-05-18T07:59:58Z
dc.date.created2018-05-18T00:22:55Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationHeritage, B. and Rees, C. and Hegney, D. 2018. The proqol-21: A revised version of the professional quality of life (ProQOL) scale based on Rasch analysis. PLoS ONE. 13 (2): Article ID e0193478.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67840
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0193478
dc.description.abstract

The Professional Quality of Life scale is a measure intended to provide practitioners and researchers with an indication of a caring professional’s compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. While this measure has been used extensively in nursing research, owing to the relevancy of patient-care associated satisfaction and fatigue within this profession, information regarding the construct validity of this measure is less well represented in the literature. We examined the construct validity of the Professional Quality of Life scale using a Rasch analysis procedure on each of its three scales, as a means of substantiating their measurement adequacy. Responses on the Professional Quality of Life scale from 1615 registered nurses (age x̅ = 46.48 years, SD = 11.78) were analysed. While support for the measurement adequacy (invariance, person/item fit, and unidimensionality) of the compassion satisfaction scale was found, the burnout and secondary traumatic stress scales did not demonstrate adequate measurement properties. We instead present an alternative measurement model of these subscales, involving items from each, to form a robust measure of compassion fatigue, and provide recoding, scoring, and normed scores for both measures. Our findings indicate that use of the Professional Quality of Life scale’s burnout and secondary traumatic stress scales may require caution, while our revised compassion satisfaction and fatigue scales provide robust measurement options for practitioners and researchers.

dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleThe proqol-21: A revised version of the professional quality of life (ProQOL) scale based on Rasch analysis
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume13
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.issn1932-6203
dcterms.source.titlePLoS ONE
curtin.departmentSchool of Psychology
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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