The Self-efficacy, Professional Commitment, and Career Needs of Clinical Trials Workers
| Autor: | Chen, Hui-Chun, 陳惠君 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 Objective: To develop an instrument to measure the self-efficacy, professional commitment, and career needs by clinical research nurses (CRNs) and clinical research associates (CRAs), and to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy and professional commitment, self-efficacy and career needs, professional commitment and career needs. Methods: A model correlation study design was adopted to include 136 clinical trial workers in north Taiwan from November 2011 to February 2012 (clinical research nurses = 96, clinical research associate = 40). Construct validity, construct validity, and construct reliability were used to test the self-efficacy, professional commitment, and career needs of clinical trial worker scale and to analysis the impact of the self-efficacy, professional commitment, and career needs for clinical trial workers. Results: The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) show the two-factor model (general self-efficacy, and social self-efficacy) from the self-efficacy scale was the best fit, construct reliability was .71, .62, coefficient alphas was .92, .76. Three-factor model (willing to make effort after profession, maintaining a sense of membership, belief in a goals and values of profession) form the professional commitment scale was best fit, construct reliability was .61, .77, .62, coefficient alphas was .88, .91, .78. The four-factor model (exploration stage of career needs, establishment stage of career needs, maintenance stage of career needs, and disengagement stage of career needs) form the career needs scale was best fit, construct reliability was .69, .72, .45, .58, coefficient alphas was .88, .71, .75, .73. The positive relationship between self-efficacy and professional commitment, professional commitment and career needs. There is no statistically significant relationship between self-efficacy and career needs. Conclusion: Although we performed statistically significant relationship between professional commitment and career needs, establishment and maintenance stage of career needs for clinical trial workers were uncertaintly. It was recommended that managers should plan training programs and related opportunities of clinical trial workers. |
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