The Internet as a research site: establishment of a web‐based longitudinal study of the nursing and midwifery workforce in three countries

Huntington, Annette; Gilmour, Jean; Schluter, Philip J.; Tuckett, Anthony G.; Bogossian, Fiona; Turner, Catherine

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.04995.x

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“…Details of the NMeS have been reported elsewhere. [18][19][20] Briefly, the DeC Study aimed to be a 5-year cohort study using a purpose-built internet-based survey (see http://doctors.e-cohort. net).…”

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“…All participants had a unique ID generated automatically at registration. [18][19][20] Data processing and statistical analysis Data were copied from the SQL database into SAS ® software, Version 9.2 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA) where data cleaning was undertaken. Participants were not personally identified in analysis datasets; all datasets included the participant ID only.…”

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Bullying in the Australian medical workforce: cross-sectional data from an Australian e-Cohort study

Askew

Schluter

Dick

et al. 2012

Aust. Health Review

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Objective. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of perceived workplace bullying in the Australian medical workforce, and investigate the relationship between workplace bullying and job satisfaction, health status, and current and planned medical workforce participation.Methods. An electronic cross-sectional survey of doctors currently in the paid workforce, conducted between April 2008 and October 2009, was nested within a longitudinal cohort study investigating factors affecting the recruitment and retention of the Australian medical workforce. To address the specific aims of this study, a subset of questions in the survey investigated the prevalence of self-reported bullying; physical and mental health; workforce participation patterns; job satisfaction; and job stressors.Results. Seven hundred and forty-seven participants responded to the bullying question and were included in this analysis. Twenty-five percent of participants reported being bullied in the last 12 months. There were no differences in the reported rates of bullying across age groups, sex and country of medical qualification. Bullied doctors were least satisfied with their jobs (P < 0.001), had taken more sick leave in the last 12 months (P < 0.001), and were more likely to be planning to decrease the number of hours worked in medicine in the next 12 months (P = 0.01) or ceasing direct patient care in the next 5 years (independent of their age or the number of hours currently worked in patient care) (P = 0.006).Conclusions. Our findings suggest that Australian doctors, independent of age or sex, have experienced workplace bullying, and although no conclusions can be made about causal pathways, there were strong associations between this exposure and poorer health and wellbeing, and on remaining in the medical workforce.What is known about the topic? Bullying and harassment have a significant impact on mental health, job satisfaction, and intention to leave the workforce. Workplace bullying in healthcare organisations affects the individuals involved, the organisations and the patients. The prevalence of workplace bullying throughout the medical workforce in Australia or elsewhere has not been investigated, with previous studies focussing on subsets of doctors, particularly junior doctors. What does this paper add? This paper found that 25% of doctors participating in this study reported experiencing persistent behaviours in the last 12 months that had undermined their professional confidence or self-esteem. There were no differences in the prevalence of bullying observed between sexes, age groups, country of medical qualifications, or employment sector. Victims of bullying had poorer mental health, had taken more sick leave in the last 12 months, were less Journal compilation Ó AHHA 2012 www.publish.csiro.au/journals/ahr CSIRO PUBLISHING Australian Health Review, 2012, 36, 197-204 Research Note http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH11048WORKFORCE satisfied with their current jobs and with being doctors, were more affected by job stresso...

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Bullying in the Australian medical workforce: cross-sectional data from an Australian e-Cohort study

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Schluter

Dick

et al. 2012

Aust. Health Review

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“…Twenty-one percent of American Psychological Association journals have published at least one article that reported on Internet research, with 39% being correlational studies and 25% having a college student sample (Skitka & Sargis, 2006). Some advantages to using the Internet for research include the time saved in collecting data, avoidance of waste and costs associated with paper instruments, easy to download data for analysis, and access to underrepresented samples (Fan & Yan, 2010;Huntington et al, 2009;Skitka & Sargis, 2006). Even though the Internet facilitates access to underrepresented samples, there is conflicting evidence for whether or not it gives researchers a diverse sample.…”

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“…The web design can also be a limitation in that participants may end the survey early by misinterpreting the progress bar indicating completion of a section versus the survey. Modes of delivering the survey and reminding participants to complete the survey (e.g., spam-blocking features on the computer) may prevent the participant from receiving the web link for the survey (Fan & Yan, 2010;Huntington et al, 2009;Skitka & Sargis, 2006).…”

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Factors influencing dietary fat intake among black emerging adults

Horton

Timmerman²,

Brown

2018

Journal of American College Health

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“…The NMeS is a longitudinal web-based study of 7,604 nurses and midwives in three countries: Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The full detail of the NMeS is described in Turner et al [21] and Huntington et al [22] and the profile of the cohort has been reported. Internet-based surveys raise important technical and methodological issues which need to be carefully considered before widespread implementation [10,13,20] .…”

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Exploring registered nurses’ attitudes towards post graduate education in Australia-instrument development

Tuckett

Fox-Young

et al. 2013

JNEP

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Background: Nursing education is designed to prepare competent nurses to meet the current and future health care needs of society. Changes to nursing education, especially at post graduate level, will therefore likely be influenced by the on-going developments in healthcare and socio-economic factors. Objective:The primary objective of this study is to develop and validate an instrument that explores the beliefs of Registered Nurses about Postgraduate education in the context of specialist nursing practice in Australia (specialty education). Methods:The Nurses' Attitudes Towards Post Graduate Education (NATPGE) instrument was sent to an expert panel to undertake judgment-quantification (content validity testing). Content Validity Index (CVI) based on expert ratings of relevance was used as a method of quantifying content validity for the NATPGE instrument. A convenience sample of 25 registered nurses was selected from four major Queensland tertiary hospitals to assess the face validity of the instrument. A random sample of 100 registered nurses from the Nurses and Midwives e-Cohort Study (NMeS) were invited to participate in test-retest procedures to assess the reliability of NATPGE overtime. The instrument was administered at two different time points, 3 weeks apart, under similar conditions.Results: Content and face validity was assessed using descriptive statistics. For the test-retest reliability, data were analysed on an item by item basis to calculate the intra-rater reliability using the weighted kappa (k w ) statistic. The NATPGE instrument attained moderate test-retest reliability. 80% of the items on the instrument reached a fair to moderate agreement between the test and retest. Conclusions:There is a need for development of a robust psychometric instrument to explore Registered Nurses' Attitudes Towards Post Graduate Education (NATPGE) and this research is the first step in addressing this need.

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The Internet as a research site: establishment of a web‐based longitudinal study of the nursing and midwifery workforce in three countries

Cited by 40 publications

References 24 publications

Bullying in the Australian medical workforce: cross-sectional data from an Australian e-Cohort study

Bullying in the Australian medical workforce: cross-sectional data from an Australian e-Cohort study

Factors influencing dietary fat intake among black emerging adults

Exploring registered nurses’ attitudes towards post graduate education in Australia-instrument development

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