Development and Validation of A New Islamic Work Ethics Scale for Healthcare Providers in Emergency Departments (EDIWES).

Emergency Departments Islamic Work Ethics Scale (EDIWES).

Abstract

Purpose: Research on work ethics has acquired considerable scholars' attention. Research on employees' religion-oriented ethics, particularly on Islamic Work Ethics (IWE), has remained relatively narrow in the present literature. This study aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure Healthcare Providers (HCPs) IWE in Emergency Departments (EDs). 

Design/methodology/approach: This study was conducted among HCPs who work at EDs in Jordan. The scale goes through a series of validation processes that included content validity, face validity and construct validity. This study employed exploratory factor analysis (EFA) for construct validity and Cronbach's alpha for reliability analysis.

Findings: The literature review revealed 22 items and 7 constructs for measuring IWE, however, one item was dropped in the content validity process and another four items dropped via construct validity. The final results yielded 17 strong explanatory items on a three-dimension scale, namely obligation of HCP to their patients (7 items), obligation of supervisors to their subordinates (5 items) and obligation of HCP to their colleagues (5 items).

Conclusion: The findings of this study provide a valid and reliable scale named EDIWES that had a satisfactory psychometric property for measuring Healthcare Providers' Islamic Work Ethics in Emergency Departments.