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Psychometric properties of brief-COPE inventory among nurses

Abstract

Objective

Brief-COPE inventory is widely used to assess coping; however, validation evidence is absent and previous results were inconsistent. This study aimed to validate psychometric properties of this inventory to ensure culturally appropriate usage.

Methods

Preliminary validation study on 423 female nurses from the United Arab Emirates. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with maximum likelihood estimation was computed to test four different previous models. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) protocol was used to determine underlying domain structure of Brief-COPE in this population.

Results

The four previous models on CFA had inadequate fit indexes. Two-factor (22-items) second-order model that explained 37.0% of the total variance with Cronbach’s alpha at 0.81 and 0.88, respectively, was suggested.

Conclusion

This validation of Brief-COPE is timely considering nurses enduring different types of stressors. In addition, cultural diversity needs to be considered in coping research. Re-assessment of this exploratory structure is necessary to ensure accurate measurement of coping strategies.

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Highlights

  • Nurses faces persistent demands and new challenges in modern healthcare

  • Coping strategies are important mechanism to mitigate adverse effects of high stress environment that has personal and organisational implications

  • Brief-COPE has been extensively used in nursing research, however, its psychometric properties need to be evaluated

  • Cultural diversity has significant influence towards the constructs of brief-COPE inventory

Introduction

Coping with persistent demands and challenges in the modern healthcare system is increasingly necessary among healthcare professionals [1]. Nurses, in particular, faces high stress and burnout levels from increased workload and work engagement, emotional exhaustion, staff shortages and poor health [2]. Studies have utilized different measurement tools to assess nurses’ coping strategies, in various settings [3, 4].

One of the most widely used measures of nurses’ coping strategies is the Brief-COPE (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced) inventory, a shortened version of the full 60-items (16 scales) COPE inventory developed by Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub [5]. Based on the Folkman & Lazarus’ Ways of Coping model and the Behavioural self-regulation model, the inventory aimed to assess various positive and negative coping strategies effectively [5]. The inventory was further refined to reduce participant fatigue and item redundancies and eventually the creation of the Brief-COPE inventory, which consists of 28-items with 14 scales [5].

Following sound theoretical guidance, a number of health-relevant studies have provided empirical evidences by using statistical tools to extract underlying domains and test psychometric properties in various settings and populations such as caregivers of people with dementia in the United Kingdom [6], among breast cancer chemotherapy patients in Malaysia [7], people with traumatic brain injury in New Zealand [8], people living with HIV in China [9], person living with HIV/AIDS in India [10], pregnant minority women in the United States [11], adults in Italy [12], and community population in Chile [13]. Brief-COPE is also translated in a number of languages such as French version [14], Malay version [7], Brazilian-Portuguese version [15], and Chilean version [13].

Although several coping strategies instruments exists such as the Folkman and Lazarus’s Ways of Coping questionnaire [16], the Multidimensional Coping Inventory [17] and the Coping Inventory for stressful situation [18], the relatively lengthy items were not particularly useful in long research protocols and clinical research. The 28-items Brief-COPE do not have this shortcoming, and have been used in many studies extensively. However, the validation results have not always been consistent due to the complex nature of coping dimensions on different types of stressors and study populations. In addition, we have not found studies examining validity and reliability estimates of Brief-COPE on nurses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In the UAE, majority of nurses are expatriates and coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, predominately Pilipino, Indian, Pakistani, and people from Western and other Arab countries [19]. As nurses move from their own home countries to a different culture of the UAE, they face different types of stressors related to reallocation which require them to develop new coping mechanisms in response to new emerging stressors. The newly stress coping strategies; however, must consider Islamic values and modesty standards of the UAE culture to enhance their acceptance by colleagues and healthcare organization [20]. Therefore, understanding stress coping strategies of nurses, who comprise the largest segment of healthcare system, will guide healthcare policy formation geared toward enhancing positive stress coping mechanisms of nurses to facilitate their smooth transition, minimize their turn over and enhance their job satisfaction. Therefore, this paper aimed to bridge this gap by validating the psychometric properties of Brief-COPE inventory to ensure culturally appropriate usage.

Materials and methods

Study design and setting

This preliminary validation study investigated the psychometric properties of the English version of Brief-COPE inventory among nurses working in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Participants were recruited between October 2017 and December 2018 using cluster sampling.

Eligible population

Eligible participants were female nurses aged ≥20 years who were not pregnant. We excluded men in the current study because the number of male nurses is very minimal in the country. Participants who had chronic health conditions (e.g., diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery disease, renal disease) and those taking oral contraceptive pills were excluded from this study. The exclusion is guided from previous studies where coping mechanisms for these group of population is significantly different from general population [21].

Data collection procedure

Trained research assistants visited the selected clusters to recruit participants. Advertisements about the study including an invitation to participate were sent to the selected sites before the site visits. The research assistants then met nurses, screened interested nurses for eligibility, introduced the study, obtained consent, and asked participants to complete the questionnaire.

Research instrument

The original brief-COPE by Carver [5] comprised of two-items in each 14 subscales including self-distraction, active coping, denial, substance use, use of emotional support, use of instrumental support, behavioral disengagement, venting, positive reframing, planning, humor, acceptance, religion, and self-blame. Meyer [22] categorized these subscales into second-order factor model, which consisted of “Adaptive coping strategies” (use of emotional support, positive reframing, acceptance, religion, humor, active coping,, planning, and use of instrumental support) and “Maladaptive coping strategies” (venting, denial, substance use, behavioural disengagement, self-distraction, and self-blame). Cooper, Katona, Orrell, & Livingston [23] further categorized the original subscales into three, which consisted of “Emotion-focused strategies” (use of emotional support, positive reframing, acceptance, religion, and humor), “Problem-focused strategies” (active coping, planning, and use of instrumental support) and “Dysfunctional coping strategies” (venting, denial, substance use, behavioural disengagement, self-distraction, and self-blame). More recently, Eisenberg, Shen, Schwarz, & Mallon [24] indicated two major, i.e., “Approach coping” (active coping, emotional support, use of instrumental support, positive reframing, planning, and acceptance) and “Avoidant coping” (self-distraction, denial, substance use, behavioural disengagement, venting, and self-blame) that excludes humor and religion.

Statistical analyses

Brief-COPE inventory has 4-point Likert response from 1 (I haven’t been doing this at all) to 4 (I’ve been doing this a lot). Mean and standard deviation of the item scores and observed range as well as floor and ceiling effects where more than 15% is considered significant effect [25], were calculated. To evaluate the construct validity of the brief-COPE inventory, a series of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with maximum likelihood estimation was computed to test four different previous models including the original structure by Carver [5], and other studies by Meyer [22], Cooper et al. [23], and Eisenberg et al. [24] that are labelled as Model 1, Model 2, Model 3, and Model 4 respectively. Various model fit indices were considered: 1) relative chi-square (χ2), 2) χ2/df where less than 2 is good fit, 3) root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) where ≤0.08 is considered good fit, 4) Non-normed fit index (NFI) where ≥0.95 is considered good fit, 5) Comparative fit index (CFI) where ≥0.90 is considered good fit, 6) Goodness-of-fit index (GFI) where ≥0.95 is considered good fit, and 7) Akaike’s information criterion (AIC) where lower values is considered better model [26].

The four models had inadequate fit indexes; thus, we performed exploratory factor analysis (EFA) model using maximum likelihood technique with varimax rotation to determine number of factors extracted and ascertained with scree plot, eigenvalue value more than 1, and factor loadings of more than 0.4. Prior to this, KMO value (≥ 0.5) and Bartlett’s sphericity test (p < 0.001) were computed [27]. Finally, a structural equation diagram with standardized regression estimates was rendered to visualize the EFA model. Item-total correlation coefficients and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients where ≥0.70 is considered good internal consistency [28] were also estimated. All analysis was computed using R 3.6.3 [29] and RStudio for Mac [30].

Ethical considerations

This study was approved by [masked]. All procedures followed ethical standards in accordance to the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Written informed consent were obtained from participants prior to study commencement, and kept secure in a locked cabinet by the research team.

Results

423 valid data from nurses in UAE who completed the brief-COPE questionnaire, were included in this analysis. Participants had mean age of 36.7 years (SD 8.5 years). Majority was expatriates (85.1%) from different nationalities and 68.4% were married.

Table 1 summarize the results of CFA model fit indices with respect to Model 1 to Model 4. Chi-square test of absolute model fit (p < 0.001) and other indices including NFT, CFI and GFI indicated all models had poor absolute fit. RMSEA index indicated only Model 1 had cut-off ≤0.08, a good fit. AIC considered Model 4 was comparatively a better model than the others.

Table 1 CFA Model Fit Indices of Brief-COPE on previously specified models (n = 423)

Based on the original 14 subscales of brief-COPE inventory, CFA resulted on highly cross-loaded estimates on all factors except for behavioural disengagement, self-blame, substance use, humor, religion, and acceptance. Emotional support and use of informational support loaded on the same factor. Likewise, positive reframing and planning also formed a single factor.

Due to poor model fit with of CFA models and high cross-loadings, EFA was conducted to establish factor structure for our study population. The KMO value (0.85) and Bartlett’s sphericity test (χ2 = 4632.7, df = 378, p < 0.001) indicated good factorability. The scree plot and eigenvalue more than 1 suggested seven factors with five-point optimal extraction (Fig. 1). Varimax rotation with factor loadings more than 0.4 yielded two factor extraction (11 scales excluded humor, self-distraction, and substance use), derives EFA model accounting for 37% of the total variance with the following fit indices: χ2/df = 4.74, RMSEA = 0.099, NFI = 0.75, GFI = 0.84, AIC = 21,790.8. Item-total correlation coefficients ranged from 0.37 to 0.69 and 0.52 to 0.63 for Factor 1 and Factor 2, respectively. Table 2 details the loadings and reliability estimate for this EFA model as well as mean and standard deviation of the scores and floor and ceiling effects.

Fig. 1
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Scree plot of Exploratory Factor Analysis with Eigenvalues and Optimal factor selection (n = 423)

Table 2 Mean scores, Distribution, Factor loadings and Reliability estimates of Brief-COPE (n = 423)

Initial analysis showed skewed distributions of the responses on several items. Floor effects were present for denial, substance use, and behavioural disengagement. Ceiling effects were significant for acceptance subscale. Although Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for first-order subscales were mostly below 0.70 except for self-blame and religion, there was good alpha estimate for the second-order two-factor EFA model at 0.81 and 0.86, respectively, where the structure is illustrated in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2
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Structural EFA model of Brief-COPE inventory (n = 423)

Discussion

This study has established the psychometric properties of the Brief-COPE inventory among nurses working in the UAE. Similar to previous studies, our validation estimates have demonstrated inconsistencies with previous models due to the complex nature of coping especially in different parts of the world that could be influenced by culture, different generations, types of stressors, and study populations. This study is timely considering that COVID-19 pandemic has affected health professionals worldwide. In UAE, a total of 250,000 cases have been recorded with 740 deaths, as of 20 December 2020 [31]. Nurses, as front liners, is even more pressing to ensure instruments measuring their coping strategies are both valid and reliable [32,33,34].

A number of studies has used Brief-COPE to examine nurses coping strategies [35,36,37], however, in the absence of validation study, the results reported may be problematic and disputed. In particular, the CFA models using structure from previous studies did not achieve good fit, observed high cross-loadings, and Cronbach’s alpha of individual subscales were inadequate (although most were above 0.5), which was similarly reported in previous validation studies including the original Brief-COPE study [9, 12, 13, 38]. Nevertheless, the developer of Brief-COPE reported that the flexibility of the inventory encourage researchers to apply and test on different settings and population to extensively either using all the subscales or selectively use relevant scales in their research [38].

Even though Brief-COPE was developed with sound theoretical model, existing validation studies of different version of brief-COPE have produced large variation in empirical evidences, particularly on the dimensionality of the scales, which may limit comparability of results in studies using this inventory. Mohanraj et al. [10] exploration of the Tamil version of Brief-COPE underlying structure among person living with HIV/AIDS in India, yielded a five factor (17-items) model accounting 41.5% of the total variance. Yusoff et al. [7] investigation on Malay version of Brief-COPE among adolescent in Malaysia, produced a nine factor model explaining 71.2% of the total variance. Su et al. [9] generated a six factor model on the Chinese version of Brief-COPE, which explained 55.5% of total variance. Reich, Costa-Ball, & Remor [39] constructed a four factor (24-items) model of the Uruguayan version, and more recently, Gloria & Peña [40] produced an eight-factor (24-items) model on the Chilean version. In our study examining nurses in the UAE, we suggested a two-factor (22-items) model that explained 37.0% of the total variance. Substance use subscale was excluded because UAE is an Islamic country, and items on alcohol is not relevant. Self-distraction and Humor subscales were slightly difficult to justify, however, considering highest score was Religion subscale, we could postulate that religiosity would most likely have preceded them.

Limitations

We expected that the reduced items will compromise theoretical content of the inventory and future researcher should attempt to re-establish content validity with area experts and replicate the results of our study, and if possible, to conduct full validation study incorporating estimates for criterion validity and test-retest reliability.

Conclusion

Overall, a two-factor second-order model provides a good model to interpret coping strategies among nurses in the UAE, which is timely considering nurses around the world is currently battling different types of stressors in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Our study also highlighted the need to account for cultural diversity in coping research as studies on translated version of Brief-COPE had yielded inconsistent underlying constructs. Re-assessment of this exploratory structure is critically warranted on nurses from different study settings and population to ensure accurate measurement of coping strategies.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to institutional data sharing clause but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Abdul Rahman, H., Bani Issa, W. & Naing, L. Psychometric properties of brief-COPE inventory among nurses. BMC Nurs 20, 73 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00592-5

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