Development and validation of a brief form of the nursing questionnaire on organizational health

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE WORK. Well-being work environment organizational conditions might generate health and, at the same time, maintaining high quality of life in their workers. The Nursing Questionnaire on Organizational Health (QISO) assessed organizational health in nursing. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of a brief version of the QISO. METHODS. The QISO was administered to nurses belonged to surgical, medical and emergency settings in the Di Venere Hospital, Local Health Authority Bari, Italy. The same interviewers were recruited a second time in order to fill also the QISO brief form. RESULTS. The correlations between the compilations of the two different questionnaires, significantly confirmed the reproducibility of the different sub-dimensions (p<.001). The QISO brief form also demonstrated good internal consistency comparable to the values of its original version (α=.630). CONCLUSIONS. The QISO brief form was not designed to replace its original version, but it was conceived as a broader and more general administration in its content prior to the QISO, which could be administered successfully, if the QISO brief form underlined a negative organizational condition, in order to mention all negative aspects of the context investigated.