Sense of coherence of nurses and the SOC-13 questionnaire
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Carmen Malagón Aguilera MC, Juvinyà Canal D, Bonmatí Tomàs A, Fernández Peña R, Bosch Farré C, Bertran Nogué C et ál. Sentido de coherencia de las enfermeras y validación del cuestionario SOC-13. Metas de Enferm nov 2012; 15(9): 27-31
Authors
1Mª Carmen Malagón Aguilera, 2Dolors Juvinyà Canal, 3Anna Bonmatí Tomàs, 4Roser Fernández Peña
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1Enfermera. Máster en Promoción de la Salud. Departamento de Enfermería de la Facultad de Enfermería de la Universidad de Gerona. 2Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Gerona.3Licenciada en Farmacia. Diplomada en Enfermería. Profesora asociada del Departamento de Enfermería de la Universidad de Gerona.4Diplomada en Enfermería. Licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural. Profesora de la Facultad de Enfermería de la Universidad de Gerona.
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Mª Carmen Malagón Aguilera. Departamento de Enfermería. Facultad de Enfermería. Universidad de Gerona. C/ Emili Grahit, 77. 17071 Gerona.
Contact email: carme.malagon@udg.edu
Abstract
Objective: to validate the SOC-13 questionnaire (Sense of Coherence 13) in nursing professionals of Primary Health Care.
Materials and methods: descriptive and cross-sectional study in 83 nursing professionals from the four basic of Gerona (Spain) conducted between 2009 and 2010. The SOC-13 questionnaire was administered, on which an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed, as well as an analysis of internal consistency for the entire questionnaire and for each of the factors of the proposed model.
Results: the final sample included 55 professionals, mean age 48,4 years (standard deviation-SD-: 9.8), 25,6 mean years in the profession, mostly married women. SOC mean score was 67,4 (SD 8,6). In the EFA, Kaiser-Meyer-Oklin statistics was > 0,5, approaching a medium adjustment, and Bartlett's test of sphericity was significant (p <,001). Factor analysis pointed to three theoretical domains that author defined and estimated acceptable factor loadings for the items.
Conclusions: SOC score was high and moderately higher compared to other international studies conducted in the nursing profession. The SOC-13 questionnaire is valid to measure the sense of coherence of Spanish nursing professionals.
Keywords:
Community Nursing; health promotion; Primary Care; psychological factorssense of coherence
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Sentido de coherencia de las enfermeras y validación del cuestionario SOC-13
