Moral Distress among Long-Term Care Social Workers: Questionnaire Validation

Autor/inn/en	Lev, Sagit; Ayalon, Liat
Titel	Moral Distress among Long-Term Care Social Workers: Questionnaire Validation
Quelle	In: Research on Social Work Practice, 28 (2018) 5, S.628-637 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1049-7315
DOI	10.1177/1049731516672070
Schlagwörter	Moral Values; Social Work; Emotional Disturbances; Intervention; Factor Analysis; Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; Construct Validity; Scores; Psychometrics; Caseworkers; Ethics; Health Services; Counselor Attitudes; Statistical Analysis; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Soziale Arbeit; Gefühlsstörung; Faktorenanalyse; Fragebogen; Ausland; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Ethik; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Objective: To describe the quantitative validation of a unique questionnaire to measure moral distress among social workers in long-term care facilities in Israel. Method: Overall, 216 long-term care facilities' social workers took part in the pilot study that included psychometric evaluation and construct validation. Moral distress was examined by two scales, measuring the frequency and the intensity of morally loaded events. A third scale was created, representing the product of the frequency and intensity scores for each item separately. Results: Two items with high floor effect were removed. The internal reliability of each of the three Moral Distress Scales was 0.92. An exploratory factor analysis suggested a single-factor solution. The construct validity was approved. In its final version, the questionnaire consisted of 15 items. Conclusions: We believe that the questionnaire can contribute by broadening and deepening ethics discourse and research with regard to social workers' moral conflicts and moral distress. [Paper presented at the Stockholm Conference on Behavioral and Social Intervention Research, 11-12 May, 2017.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01