Mexican Quality of Work Life Scale in healthcare personnel: development and validation

Abstract

There is little evidence of measurement scales with appropriate psychometric properties regard Quality of Work-Life in health personnel, so the objective was to develop and examine psychometric properties of Mexican Quality of Work Life Scale (MQWLS). An instrumental, cross-sectional study was conducted. Phase 1) development of the scale and content validity; Phase 2) validation with two different samples [n = 293] and [n = 300] through an online questionnaire. Content validity was obtained for 60 items (Aiken's V >.90); exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes yielded a six-dimension structure; the fit indexes from the final scale with 24 items were acceptable (χ2[257] = 540.277; CMIN/DF = 2.102; NFI =.914; CFI =.953; GFI =.877, AGFI =.845; SRMR =.047; RMSEA =.061 [.054-.069] p