Cross-Cultural and Psychometric Validation of the Ageism in the Organizational Context Scale in Nursing Students

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI:10.1111/jep.70215

Jack Roberto Silva Fhon, Zoila Esperanza Leitón-Espinoza, Orfelina Arpasi-Quispe, Maritza Evangelina Villanueva-Benites, Catalina Olimpia Bello-Vidal, Walter Capa-Luque

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Abstract

Aim

To conduct the cross-cultural and psychometric validation of the ‘Ageism in the Organizational Context Scale’ with Peruvian nursing students.

Methods

This is a methodological quantitative study conducted with 882 nursing students between February and August 2023. For the adaptation process, the forward-backward method of the original version from Portuguese to Spanish was used. The content analysis was performed with the participation of specialist judges, while for the internal structure of the construct, confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance with multigroup confirmatory factor analysis were used.

Results

Content validity was 0.93. The best internal structure of the construct is represented by the bi-factor model for the 14-item scale (CFI and TLI > 0.97, RMSEA = 0.057 and SRMR = 0.028). The measurement invariance by sex for the four levels (configural, metric, strong and strict) is also satisfactorily fulfilled. The internal consistency of the bifactor model according to the hierarchical omega (> 0.85) and the H coefficient for the latent construct (> 0.90) presented high reliability. In addition, the ordinal alpha coefficient and McDonald omega presented high precision (≥ 0.85).

Conclusion

The Ageism in the Organizational Context Scale adapted to the Peruvian version with 14 items showed excellent validity evidence based on the internal structure of the construct for a bifactor model and high reliability for the general score and for the two dimensions in nursing students. Identifying ageism towards the older population among nursing students is important in the training of future nurses, eliminating prejudice and improving the quality of care in this population.

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护生组织情境中年龄歧视的跨文化及心理测量验证

目的对秘鲁护生的“组织情境中的年龄歧视量表”进行跨文化和心理测量学验证。方法采用方法学定量研究方法，于2023年2月至8月对882名护生进行调查。在改编过程中，采用了原葡萄牙语到西班牙语的前向后退方法。内容分析由专家评委参与，内部结构采用验证性因子分析和测量不变性多组验证性因子分析。结果内容效度为0.93。构建的最佳内部结构由14项量表的双因素模型表示（CFI和TLI >； 0.97, RMSEA = 0.057, SRMR = 0.028）。四个层次（构形、度量、强和严格）的性别测量不变性也得到了满意的满足。基于层次的双因子模型的内部一致性（> 0.85）和潜在构式的H系数（> 0.90）具有较高的信度。此外，序数α系数和McDonald ω具有较高的精度（≥0.85）。结论秘鲁版14项组织情境量表的年龄歧视在双因素模型构式的内部结构上具有良好的效度证据，护生的总得分和两个维度具有较高的信度。识别护理专业学生中对老年人群的年龄歧视对于培训未来的护士，消除偏见和提高护理质量非常重要。

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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.