The Development of EAU Quality of Life Among Nurse students Scale (EAUNQOLS)
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The purpose of this R&D research was to develop EAU quality of life among nurse students scale (EAUNQOLS). The participants were 817 first to fourth year nurse students in Private universities and colleges of central Thailand. The research methadology were: 1) reviewed literatures and designed 45 items on five-points rating scale and 2) investigated quality of this scale by content validity (I-CVI, S-CVI, CVR and CVI), construct validity (EFA, CFA), convergent validity (AVE, construct/composite reliability: CR), discriminant validity (compare with correlation coefficient (r) between factors) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha).
The research results were as follows: The results of EFA showed factor loading between .520 to .852 that there were 32 items. The EAUNQOLS consists of 4 factors including 1) physical 4 items 2) psychological 6 items 3) social 10 items and 4) environment 13 items. The CFA of measurement model revealed that the model fit to the empirical data with fit indice (NFI, NNFI, CFI, IFI, RFI, GFI, AGFI, PGFI) between .77 to .95 and standard errors (Standardized RMR, RMR, RMSEA) between .064 to .086. The quality of scale indicated that there were content validity (S-CVI/UA = .969, S-CVI/Ave = .990, CVI = .980), convergent validity (AVE =.907, .935, .947, .934 repectively and CR =.975, .986, .994, .994 repectively), discriminant validity ( between .952 to .973 and greater than inter construct correlations) and internal consistency (Cronbach’ s alpha = .929).
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