Development and validation of Work-Related Activities during Non-Work Time Scale (WANTS) for doctors.

ABSTRACT: Work-related activities during non-work time may influence the intershift recovery of post-work fatigue. Currently there is no valid and reliable scale available to measure the frequency for such activities among doctors. Therefore, this study aims to develop and validate 'Work-Related Activities during Non-Work Time Scale' (WANTS) that measure the frequency of work-related activities during non-work time for doctors. This was a scale development and validation study among doctors involving item generation, content and construct validation, and reliability assessment. 23-item seven-point Likert-type scale was developed through deductive (literature search) and inductive (interview with source population, authors' experiences, and expert opinion) methods. The content-validated scale was pre

SUBMITTER: Mohd Fauzi MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673515 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature