title: Development and psychometric assessment of the undergraduate nursing student academic satisfaction scale (UNSASS).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed instrument: The Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale (UNSASS).
  
  
  METHODS
  A self-report test-retest questionnaire was administered to a convenience sample of 313 students enrolled in Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) program in Ontario, Canada.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The psychometric analysis yielded a 48-item multidimensional instrument. Validity testing revealed a content validity index (CVI) of .83. Factor analysis suggested a four-dimension scale with distinct factor loadings that all exceeded .4 and explained 50% of the variance. The scale had an overall Cronbach's alpha coefficient of .96 and a test-retest correlation coefficient of .88, indicating a highly reliable instrument.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The newly developed instrument provides a tool to comprehensively measure the satisfaction of nursing students with the academic aspects of their nursing programs.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dennison
authors.forename: Maher M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: El-Masri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009864:Ontario; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires