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Table 1 Respondent Demographics and Improvement Readiness Cronbach’s α

From: The Improvement Readiness scale of the SCORE survey: a metric to assess capacity for quality improvement in healthcare

 

N

Cronbach’s α

% of Total

Role

 Nurse

3367

0.919

31.7%

 Physician: Attending

1036

0.926

9.7%

 Technologist (e.g., Surg., Lab, Rad.)

869

0.933

8.2%

 Other

689

0.941

6.5%

 Technician (e.g., PCT, Surg., Lab, EKG, Rad.)

567

0.937

5.3%

 Administrative Support (Administrative Asst., Work setting Coordinator, etc.)

542

0.935

5.1%

 Advance Practice Provider (PA/NP/CRNA/Nurse Clinician)

503

0.922

4.7%

 Clinical Support (Medical Assistant, CMA, EMT, etc.)

500

0.922

4.7%

 Nurse’s Aide

489

0.930

4.6%

 Therapist (RT, PT, OT, SLP)

462

0.910

4.3%

 Administrator/Manager/Supervisor

388

0.872

3.7%

 Physician: Resident

275

0.912

2.6%

 Pharmacist

198

0.927

1.9%

 Physician: Fellow

157

0.954

1.5%

 Clinical Social Worker/Case Manager

130

0.943

1.2%

 Dietician/Nutritionist

51

0.850

0.5%

 Environmental Services

41

0.964

0.4%

 Psychologist

20

0.800

0.2%

 Missing

343

0.925

3.2%

Years In Specialty

 Less than 6 months

1264

0.918

11.9%

 6 to 11 months

2184

0.928

20.6%

 1 to 2 years

1974

0.934

18.6%

 3 to 4 years

1410

0.921

13.3%

 5 to 10 years

2423

0.929

22.8%

 11 to 20 years

877

0.910

8.3%

 21 years or more

404

0.901

3.8%

 Missing

91

0.942

0.9%

Shift

 Day

7235

0.928

68.1%

 Night

1269

0.925

11.9%

 Other

946

0.933

8.9%

 Swing

1000

0.908

9.4%

 Missing

177

0.923

1.7%

Shift Length

 10 h

1402

0.929

13.2%

 12 h

3482

0.916

32.8%

 8 h

4320

0.932

40.7%

 Flex

321

0.927

3%

 Other

941

0.929

8.9%

 Missing

161

0.924

1.5%

 Total

10,627

0.930

100%

  1. Values on the arrows from IR to items represent standardized factor loadings and their standard errors, in parentheses. Values on the far right side of the figure represent residual variances for the items and their standard errors, in parentheses. The scale’s five items were presented as phrases that follow an initial prompt: “The learning environment in this work setting…”