Mentoring questionnaire for health profession students in Switzerland: validation study

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to determine the validity of a mentoring programme questionnaire that should to be used for future evaluations in bachelor degree courses at the Bern University of Applied Sciences.

Material and methods: One hundred and twenty-nine students were finally included in this study. Explorative factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted and model fit was discussed.

Results: The model fit shows a good RMSEA value of .064 and a good CFI value of .946. A non-significant chi-square value could be determined (χ² = 45.76, df =30, N = 129, p = .063).

Conclusion: The current study determines a feasible model fit and suggests applying the mentoring programme questionnaire in bachelor degree courses at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Health with relatively good construct validity.

Keywords:

• Mentoring
• learning
• undergraduate students
• questionnaire
• validity

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Ross Bennie for proofreading.

Disclosure statement

None of the authors have any financial or personal conflict of interest in relation to the submission article, or any other organisations or people.