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Measuring academic satisfaction in nursing students: a systematic review of the instruments

  • Silvia Rossini ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Rocco Mazzotta , Mari Kangasniemi , Sondra Badolamenti , Loreana Macale , Alessandro Sili , Ercole Vellone , Rosaria Alvaro und Giampiera Bulfone
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 19. September 2022
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Aus der Zeitschrift International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship Band 19 Heft 1

Abstract

Student academic satisfaction is one of the most important factors affecting the success and quality of a higher education institute and is an indicator about teaching and learning. This study aims to summarize and critically evaluate the instruments assessing academic satisfaction in nursing education. A systematic review was undertaken, PRISMA were used for the screening of studies. MEDLINE, Cochrane, Scopus and CINAHL were searched using MeSH terms; seven eligible articles were identified referring to five assessment tools. COSMIN was used for evaluation of the methodological of the instruments. The systematic review identified five satisfaction measurement tools used in nursing education. The analysis of the instruments rarely considered a confirmative validity structure, measurement error or criterion validity. The best available instrument was the Nursing Students Satisfaction Scale (NSSS) for validation methodology; however, it needs further validation studies that consider CFA, reliability, criteria validity, hypothesis testing and measurement error.

Keywords: education nursing; personal satisfaction; psychometrics; students nursing; surveys and questionnaires; systematic review
Corresponding author: Silvia Rossini, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 1-00133 Rome, Italy, Phone: +39 3478429841, Fax: +39 0672596961, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

  2. Author contribution: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  5. Ethical approval: Not applicable.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2021-0159).

Received: 2021-12-08
Revised: 2022-06-21
Accepted: 2022-07-26
Published Online: 2022-09-19

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2021-0159
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
education nursing; personal satisfaction; psychometrics; students nursing; surveys and questionnaires; systematic review

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Nurses’ and nurse educators’ experiences of a Pediatric Nursing Continuing Professional Development program in Rwanda
  2. Literature Reviews
  3. Measuring academic satisfaction in nursing students: a systematic review of the instruments
  4. Pediatric practicums in undergraduate nursing programs: an integrative review
  5. Research Articles
  6. Nursing educators’ collaboration and professional development: a cross-sectional study
  7. Ethical tension in nursing education: a challenge for faculty values and beliefs
  8. Improving practicing nurses’ knowledge and perceptions of older people: a quasi-experimental study
  9. Embracing diversity: measuring the impact of an international immersion learning experience on nursing students’ cultural beliefs and values
  10. Lower academic performance and dropout rates among University students with children: a prospective cohort study of nursing students in Bogotá, Colombia
  11. Supporting the transition to practice: preceptor behaviors that foster a positive student preceptorship experience
  12. Faculty supportive behaviors and nursing student mental health: a pilot study
  13. Intention and motivation to pursue higher education among registered nurses and midwives: a cross-sectional study during COVID-19
  14. An analysis of nursing and medical students’ attitudes towards and knowledge of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
  15. Assessing non-technical skills in undergraduate nursing students: a validation study
  16. Developing nursing students’ informatics competencies – A Canadian faculty perspective
  17. A creative approach for undergraduate nursing students to learn anatomy and physiology: a qualitative exploratory study
  18. Resilience and GRIT among undergraduate nursing students during the COVID 19 pandemic
  19. The effect of advocacy education of nursing students on attitudes towards disability: a quasi-experimental study
  20. Knowledge and perceptions of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among prelicensure nursing students
  21. Narrative photography with an expert patient as a method to improve empathy: a satisfaction study with health sciences students
  22. Self-efficacy beliefs among baccalaureate nursing students – A cross-sectional, comparative study
  23. Learning on the periphery: a modified Delphi study of a nursing student communities of practice model
  24. Clinical instruction in mental health nursing: students’ perceptions of best practices
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  28. Flipped or traditional online teaching? Two different strategies to handle teaching in nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic
  29. Application of the cognitive load theory in prelicensure nursing education: a quantitative measurement focusing on instructional design
  30. Educational Process, Issue, Trend
  31. Finding the right balance: student perceptions of using virtual simulation as a community placement
  32. Virtual patients: an option for future distance midwifery education?
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