@article{ref1,
title="A new scale of readiness for health care students to encounter partner abuse",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2020",
author="Sawyer, Simon and Melvin, Glenn and Williams, Angela and Williams, Brett",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Partner abuse (PA) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Health care practitioners regularly encounter patients experiencing PA and require  comprehensive education on how to respond. This study describes the creation and  validation of a new measure of readiness to encounter patients experiencing PA for  health care practitioners and students.Initial item development and content  validation were informed by expert feedback. Psychometric properties were assessed  using data collected from Australian health care students, using Principal  Components Analysis (PCA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Internal  consistency, inter-scale correlations, and test-retest analysis were performed.An  initial pool of 67 items was reduced to 48 following content validation by 5 experts  as a measure of construct validity. A total of n = 926 responses were collected,  which were randomly split into two groups to perform a PCA and CFA. The PCA resulted  in a 31-item version, which was further reduced to a 27-item version following the  CFA, containing four factors. Internal consistency and test-retest analyses  demonstrated good reliability.The produced scale is a 27-item measure of readiness  to encounter patients experiencing PA, which has demonstrated good psychometric  properties with a sample of Australian health care students. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that  self-efficacy and Emotional-readiness are a large component of readiness. The scale  may be used to measure the readiness of a cohort, or as a pre and post-intervention  measure, and results may provide insight into the educational needs of a cohort.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260520981131",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260520981131"
}