Validation and application of the Chinese version of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (C-PSQ) in nursing students

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Yi Luo¹  Boxiong Gong²  Runtang Meng³  Xiaoping Cao¹  Shuang Tang⁴  Hongzhi Fang⁵  Xing Zhao⁶  Bing Liu⁷ 

[1] School of Nursing, Ningbo College of Health Sciences;Department of Oncology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine;Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University;Department of Nursing, Renmin Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine;Department of Anaesthesiology, Shandong Provincial Western Hospital;Department of Orthopaedics, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine;Centre of Health Administration and Development Studies, Hubei University of Medicine

关键词: Validation;    Application;    Perceived stress;    Nursing students;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.4503

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Objective To translate the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) into Chinese, validate its reliability and validity in nursing students and investigate the perceived stress level of nursing students. Method Forward- and back-translation combined with expert assessment and cross-cultural adaptations were used to construct the Chinese version of the PSQ (C-PSQ). This research adopted a stratified sampling method among 1,519 nursing students in 30 classes of Ningbo College of Health Sciences to assess the reliability and validity of the C-PSQ. Among them, we used the Recent C-PSQ (only the last month). Results The C-PSQ retained all 30 items of the original scale. Principal component analysis extracted five factors that explained 52.136% of the total variance. The S-CVI/Ave was 0.913. Concurrent validity was 0.525 and 0.567 for anxiety and depression respectively. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis were as follows: χ2/df = 4.376, RMR = 0.023, GFI = 0.921, AGFI = 0.907, CFI = 0.916, RMSEA = 0.048, PNFI = 0.832, PGFI = 0.782, CN = 342 and AIC/CAIC = 0.809. The scale’s Cronbach’s alpha was 0.922, and Cronbach’s α of each dimension was 0.899 (worries/tension), 0.821 (joy), 0.688 (overload), 0.703 (conflict), 0.523 (self-realization). The correlation coefficient between the first and second test, the first and third test and the second and third test was 0.725, 0.787 and 0.731, respectively. Mean values and distribution of overall PSQ index in nursing students was 0.399 ± 0.138. Different demographic factors were significantly associated with the perceived stress of nursing students. Conclusion The C-PSQ has an appropriate reliability and validity, which means that the scale can be used as a universal tool for psychosomatic studies. The perceived stress of nursing students was relatively high. Further studies are needed.

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