VALIDATION OF QUALITY AND SATISFACTION SURVEY OF CLINICAL SIMULATION IN NURSING STUDENTS

Abstract

High-fidelity clinical simulations are considered a fundamental method of training for nursery students. One way of assessing the effectiveness of this method is through student’s satisfaction. Objective: To validate the constructs of the Spanish version of the scale presented in “Survey of Quality and Satisfaction of clinical simulation” by Durá Ros. Method: A cross-sectional study was used, with a sample consisting of 216 undergraduate nursing students from third to fifth year from the University of Bío-Bío, in Chillán, Chile. A Principal Components Analysis (PCA) with Varimax rotation was used. Internal consistency was evaluated with ?-Cronbach. Results: Of the 216 students, 37% were in the third year of the program, 36.6% in the fourth year and 26.4% in the fifth year. Using a grading scale of 1 to 7, 87.5% of students averaged grades between 5.0 and 5.99. A KMO=0.887 coefficient was obtained, and the Bartlett’s sphericity test was statistically significant (?2=1014,977; 105 gl; p < 0.001). The Principal Components Analysis (PCA) resulted in three components: significant learning, structure
of the clinical simulation and interpersonal relationship with the clinical simulation. Together, these components managed to explain 51.227% of the total variance, with ? values being 0.865, 0.467 and 0.550 respectively. Conclusion: Three components emerged from the analysis, which help characterize student’s satisfaction regarding clinical simulation. Exploratory work is suggested until a confirmatory factor analysis is reached to evaluate the goodness of fit of the model.