Scale for Measuring Critical Thinking Ability for Dental Residents: A Development and Validation Study

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI:10.1111/jep.70031

Lina Dai, Tingting Wu, Yun Hu, Jinlin Song

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Abstract

Objectives

To establish and validate a short scale of critical thinking ability for dental residents based on the Byrnes theory.

Materials and Methods

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.

Results

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.

Conclusions

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.

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.