Constructing a work’s pressure scale among nurses of emergency

Abstract

In this study, we try to clarify the method of constructing a measure of the working pressure among nurses in the emergency units according to the use of new statistical methods, which are accurate and codified and based on the statistical package for social sciences. The researchers constructed a measure of work pressure and verified its validity using the exploratory factor analysis which reveals the global structure of the scale. It was applied to exploratory sample of (148) nurses emergency services in the province of Mostaganem, where the items of the scale consisted of 40 items before evaluating content validity by the experts, but the result has been excluded tow items which are not reflect to the dimension content, Therefore, the items of the scale became 38 items, and after subjecting the measure of work pressure to the exploratory factor analysis, two items were also deleted. In the final form, the measure has 36 items. This exploratory results show the accommodation of the scale for the purposes of the study and benefit from high validity and reliability.