Reliability and Validity of a Questionnaire to Estimate Satisfaction Level of Cardiac Critical Care Nursing Students in with Virtual Education COVID-19 Pandemic Era

 Behshid Ghadrdoost   Parham Sadeghipour   Ata Firouzi   Farshad Shakerian   Reza Kiani   Alireza Rashidinejad   Zahra Hosseini   Saeideh Mazloomzadeh   Fidan Shabani   Bahram Mohebbi

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way things are done in walks of life including education of students of critical care nursing and has shifted it to virtual education. The development of valid and reliable questionnaire to estimate nursing students’ satisfaction with e-learning can be useful for medical educational system. So, the purpose of this study is to design and validate a questionnaire on the level of satisfaction of students of critical care nursing with virtual learning in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A self-administered questionnaire which was prepared by the nursing staff and faculty members of Rajaie cardiovascular medical and research center was assessed in terms of face and content validity, internal consistency by Cronbach’s alpha. Principal component factor analysis was done to determine the domains of the designed questionnaire.

Results: Content validity of the questionnaire was measured using CVR (0.97) and CVI (0.93). To determine the content validity index, the criteria of relevance, clarity and simplicity of each item were evaluated and they were acceptable. The study results demonstrated that Cronbach's alpha based on internal consistency ranged from 0.79 to 0.93. In order to determine the test-retest reliability, the correlation between two round of evaluation was more than 89 (r>0.89 p>0.001) and correlation intra-class coefficient was. 097(ICC:0.97, p>0.001).

Conclusion: Results of this study confirmed reliability and validity of questionnaire to evaluate the level of satisfaction of students of critical care nursing with virtual learning in the COVID-19 pandemic.