Validation of the Danish translation of the Measure of Job Satisfaction for pharmacy staff

OBJECTIVES: The Measure of Job Satisfaction (MJS) has been recognized as a questionnaire having good psychometric quality and adequate content validity for evaluating job satisfaction in healthcare settings. This study aimed to validate the Danish translation of the MJS for pharmacy staff. METHODS: The MJS was translated into Danish and adapted for pharmacy staff applying the Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Outcome Measures. Links to the Danish MJS, alongside demographic and profession-related questions, were distributed to Danish community and hospital pharmacies' institutional emails and selected Facebook groups. The structural validity was assessed through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Internal consistency reliability was evaluated by calculating Cronbach's alpha. KEY FINDINGS: Responses from 500 respondents with complete entries were analyzed. Most respondents worked in a community pharmacy (81.4%), were pharmacy technicians (53.0%), were female (88.6%), and were between 25 and 44 years old (59.8%). CFA revealed an acceptable seven-factor construct [Goodness of Fit (GFI) = 0.766, Adjusted Goodness of Fit (AGFI) = 0.736, Normed Fit Index (NFI) = 0.805, Tucker Lewis Index (TLI) = 0.838, Comparative Fit Index (CFI) = 0.982, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) = 0.073, Root Mean Square Residual (RMR) = 0.087]. Standardized regression weight values for items loading onto their respective factors ranged from 0.441 to 0.860. Correlations between the factors ranged from 0.360 to 0.810. The internal consistency reliability, Cronbach's alpha for the entire scale was 0.962, and for the subscales it ranged from 0.764 to 0.935. CONCLUSIONS: The Danish MJS exhibited an acceptable seven-factor structure with high internal consistency. It can serve as a tool for assessing job satisfaction among pharmacy staff in Denmark, facilitating international comparisons of job satisfaction among pharmacy and other healthcare staff.