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Frontiers | Development and validation of a flow state scale for healthcare professionals

A Chinese study develops a 15-item Flow State Scale for healthcare professionals to measure peak work experiences.
Delphi rounds with 15 medical experts refined the scale from an initial 33 items to its final form.
A large sample of 1,240 healthcare workers across China was used to validate the scale.
The four factors identified are Concentration and Directional Feedback, Intrinsic Empowerment and Control, Transformation of Time, and Loss of Self-Consciousness.
Psychometric results show good reliability with Cronbach’s alphas above 0.8 for all dimensions.
Confirmatory factor analysis supported a four-factor structure with good model fit.
Cross-validation in a second sample confirmed the four-factor model’s stability.
The scale aims to aid healthcare institutions in motivation, burnout intervention, and service quality.
Study notes flow is a short-lived yet intense state during a specific task in medical work.
Researchers aimed to adapt existing flow scales to healthcare contexts to avoid bias and misfit.

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