Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Formative Research
Date Submitted: Nov 11, 2022
Date Accepted: Apr 6, 2023
Measurement of Humanity among health professional students: Development and validation of Medical Humanity Scale using Delphi method
ABSTRACT
Background:
A patient-centred perspective has been connected to humanity. Medical practitioners should respect patients' independence, values, and aspirations. They should involve them in treatment decision-making, and communicate with them. Patient care supported by an evidence-based conceptual framework to evaluate and promote the concept and values of humanity in medical curricula within universities, particularly Syrian universities affected by a terrible crisis that necessitated the establishment of curricula based on humanity and the evaluation of students' humanity.
Objective:
This study aims to design a humanity scale for medical, dental and pharmacy students.
Methods:
The study was conducted in a methodological design to study the reliability and validity of the Syrian Humane Scale. The study included students in the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry or Pharmacy. A Medical Humanity Scale includes 27 items that analyse human values: patient-oriented, respect, empathy, ethics, altruism and compassion. Simplicity, clearness and orientation are the factors that were considered while the items were formed to decrease the wrong interpretation of the results. The 7-Point Likert has been implemented. The Delphi technique and factors analysis was used. Then, validity and reliability were analysis.
Results:
The factors analysis appears that the percentage of variables between the first and second factors is greater than 10%, and this confirms that the scale is only one group. Cronbach's alpha for the overall scale was (0.735>0.700). Thus, the scale has acceptable reliability and validity.
Conclusions:
The Medical Humanity Scale is a reliable and valid scale for measuring the human aspect of medical college students.
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