Development and Psychometric Assessment of the Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale (UNSASS)

El-Masri, Maher M.

Sunday, 30 October 2011: 3:25 PM

Maher M. El-Masri, RN, PhD
Susan Dennison, MScN, RN
Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

Learning Objective 1: The learneer will be able oriented to the process of instrument development of a studet satisfaction scale

Learning Objective 2: The learner will have an overview of the validity and reliability testing procedures

Background and Purpose: To examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed instrument: The Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale (UNSASS).

Methods: A self-report test-retest questionnaire was administered to a convenience sample of 313 students enrolled in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) program in Ontario, Canada.

Results: The psychometric analysis yielded a 48-item multidimensional instrument. Validity testing revealed a Content Validity Index of .83. Factor analysis suggested a four dimension scale with distinct factor loadings that all exceeded .4 and explained 50% of the variance. The scale had an overall Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of .96 and a test-retest correlation coefficient of .88, indicating a highly reliable instrument.

Conclusions: The newly developed instrument provides a tool to comprehensively measure the satisfaction of nursing students with the academic aspects of their nursing programs.

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