TY - JOUR ID - 48675 TI - Psychometric Properties of Clinical Learning Environment Comparison Survey Questionnaire in Nursing Students JO - Journal of Advances in Medical Education & Professionalism JA - JAMP LA - en SN - 2322-2220 AU - RIAHI, SHIRIN AU - ABOLFAZLIE, MINA AU - ARABI, MOHSEN AD - Education Development Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran; AD - Education Development Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran AD - Department of physiology, Pharmacology and Medical Physic, School of Medicine, Alborz University of Medical Science, Karaj, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 267 EP - 273 KW - Learning KW - Validity KW - reliability KW - Nursing KW - Students DO - 10.30476/jamp.2022.95206.1630 N2 - Introduction: Continuous evaluations of clinical education and learning in nursing require the use of valid and reliableinstruments. The present study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the CLECS questionnaire (a questionnaire for assessing the clinical learning environment) in nursing students.Methods: This is a psychometric study conducted on 118 nursing students. Through email correspondence with the corresponding author, permission was obtained from the developer to translate, validate, and use the CLECS. The CLECS was translated into Persian. The psychometric process was performed after the translation and cultural adaptation steps. Cronbach’s alpha was used to assess the reliability. The instrument validity was assessed through convergent, discriminant, and confirmatory factor analysis. We used AMOS 18 for confirmatory factor analysis and SPSS-20 for reliability, convergent, and discriminant validity.Results: A total of 118 nursing students participated in the study. The Cronbach’s alpha value of the questionnaire was 0.942. Convergent validity was obtained in all dimensions above 0.4. The confirmatory factor analysis results confirmed the fit of the final model and showed that the present questionnaire was 6-dimensional. Most of the questions in the questionnaire did not have a good differential validity. The highest and lowest means were related to the nursing process and holism dimensions, respectively.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, CLECS, except in the discriminant validity, has good validity and reliability, which can be considered to examine the learning environment of undergraduate nursing students. UR - https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_48675.html L1 - https://jamp.sums.ac.ir/article_48675_d5abd964b800082841ee25430dd880d9.pdf ER -