Introduction: Instruments that measure job well-being have the aim to evaluate consequences as individual health due to job unsatisfaction but not nurse perception about organizational health. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric characteristics of the Nursing Organizational Health Questionnaire (MOHQ), an instrument derived from the Multidimensional Organizational Health Questionnaire (MOHQ) that measures nursing organizational health.
Methods: The MOHQ underwent to content validity by a group of experts that modified and added new items of the MHQ. Afterward the MOHQ was administered to a sample of 1279 nurses working in several contexts in Lazio and Umbria regions. Dimensionality of each scale of MOHQ, and concurrent validity of the new items were investigated using Exploratory Factor Analysis approach. Therefore Cronbach's alpha was computed for each dimensions of each scale to examine internal consistency.
Results: Statistical analysis confirmed the factor structure of each scale and the reliability of the emerged dimensions. Moreover analyses have shown the importance of the new items to investigate specific dimension related to the nurse organizational context.
Discussion: The present study showed that the MOHQ has good psychometric properties of validity and reliability and can be used to study organizational health in nursing population.