Background: The Measure of Job Satisfaction (MJS) is a validated questionnaire originally developed for nurses1. It comprises 44 items, forming seven subscales: personal satisfaction, satisfaction with workload, professional support, training, payment, career prospects, and performed standards of care. The final item pertains to general job satisfaction. Participants rate their opinions on a scale from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating greater satisfaction. The MJS questionnaire has been translated into Danish, adapted for pharmacy staff, and piloted in Danish community pharmacies2.
Purpose: This study aimed to psychometrically validate the Danish translation of the MJS for pharmacy staff.
Method: Links to the questionnaire, including demographic and profession-related questions alongside the Danish MJS, were distributed to Danish community and hospital pharmacies' institutional emails and selected Facebook groups using the online survey system SurveyXact from February to March 2024. Data with complete entries were analyzed. The factor structure was assessed through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using the IBM SPSS AMOS package version 29. Internal consistency reliability was evaluated by calculating Cronbach’s alpha using the IBM Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 29.
Findings: Of the 674 participants who began the questionnaire, 22 were not employed at a pharmacy or did not specify their workplace, 15 did not provide demographic information, and 138 omitted at least one response to the MJS questionnaire. This led to 500 respondents with complete entries used for analysis. Among these, the majority worked in a community pharmacy (81.4%), and 53.0% were pharmacy technicians. Demographically, the majority were females (88.6%), and the largest age group was 25-44 years old (59.8%). CFA revealed an acceptable seven-factor construct (GFI = 0.766, AGFI = 0.736, NFI = 0.805, TLI = 0.838, CFI = 0.982, RMSEA = 0.073, RMR = 0.087, p < 0.001). All items showed strong loadings onto their respective factors: standardized regression weight values ranged from 0.441 to 0.860. Correlations between the seven 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.
Conclusion: The Danish translation of the MJS exhibited an acceptable seven-factor structure with high internal consistency for the overall scale and each subscale. 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.