Survey the level of well-being and Psychometric characteristics of hospital nurses’ well-being at work

Background and Aims: mental health problems is common among nurses, because they must face to stressors of their workplace which include work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, financial problems, lack of vacation time, pressures of work, patient communication frameworks  and painful experiences of patients. Based on previous researches psychological resiliency can help them to appropriate and efficient cope with these stressors. But, there is not brief and practical scale to assess psychological resiliency among nurses. So, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the hospital nurses’ well-being at work. Methods: this cross sectional study was done on 194 nurses. The hospital nurses’ well-being at work was administered. The hospital nurses’ well-being at work is composed of 67 items and psychometric properties were examined through the Face validity, Content Validity, Concurrent validity, Construct validity. The data were analyzes by Spss software. Results: Face and content validity were approved by five psychologists. The KMO index and Bartlett's test of sphericity indicated that correlation matrices were suitable for factor analysis. Factor analysis with Principal Component Analysis extracted one factor with 67.06% total variance. Internal consistency was confirmed by a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.957. Conclusion: This study showed that the hospital nurses’ well-being at work had appropriate psychometric properties and is a valid and reliable screening index to measure well-being of nurses. This index could facilitate the assessing Well-Being in brief and practical way among nurses.