Validation of publication pressure questionnaire-revised into Chinese nurses from a university hospital

Abstract

Aims: To translate and validate the Publication Pressure Questionnaire-revised (PPQ-r) among the Chinese nurses.

Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study.

Methods: The classical forward/backward translation of the PPQ-r was conducted first, and then the psychometric values were tested using the data collected in September, 2021 among 924 Chinese nurses from a university hospital in China by calculating its content validity index, construct validity, both convergent and discriminant validity, and internal consistency reliability following the COSMIN guidelines.

Results: The proposed three-factor structure of original PPQ-r cannot be confirmed in present study. With exploratory factor analysis, a new two-factor structure with 9 items was extracted, accounting for 62.718% of the variance. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated satisfactory goodness of all fit index values: χ² = 75.53; df = 23; χ² /df = 3.28; CFI = 0.973; TLI = 0.958; RMSEA = 0.07 and SRMR = 0.047. Both sub-scales yielded good internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha being 0.845 and 0.876, respectively. The Chinese version of PPQ-r could be accepted as a reliable and valid tool to measure the Chinese nurses' publication pressure.

Patient or public contribution: Participation of nurses in this study was limited to the data provided through participant survey.

Keywords: China; nurses; publication pressure; research pressure; validation study.