Table 2.

Cronbach’s alpha for the MISS-HP with items removed and total score

Items	Overall (n = 3006)		Nurses (n = 583)		Physicians (n = 2423)		ICC (n = 73)
	M ± SD	αa	M ± SD	αa	M ± SD	αa
MI1	4.1 ± 2.6	0.70	4.2 ± 2.7	0.69	4.1 ± 2.7	0.69	0.65
MI 2	6.4 ± 3.0	0.64	6.2 ± 3.0	0.66	6.4 ± 3.0	0.64	0.51
MI 3	5.8 ± 3.0	0.64	5.8 ± 3.0	0.65	5.8 ± 3.0	0.63	0.48
MI 4	5.7 ± 3.0	0.64	5.3 ± 2.8	0.66	5.8 ± 3.0	0.64	0.58
MI 5	3.6 ± 2.4	0.70	3.5 ± 2.5	0.71	3.6 ± 2.4	0.69	0.41
MI 6	3.6 ± 2.6	0.70	3.4 ± 2.5	0.71	3.6 ± 2.6	0.69	0.57
MI 7	6.1 ± 2.7	0.70	6.2 ± 2.9	0.70	6.1 ± 2.7	0.69	0.43
MI 8	3.4 ± 2.5	0.69	3.4 ± 2.5	0.70	3.4 ± 2.5	0.68	0.74
MI 9	3.5 ± 2.5	0.66	3.4 ± 2.5	0.68	3.5 ± 2.5	0.66	0.50
MI 10	4.8 ± 2.9	0.69	4.8 ± 3.0	0.69	4.8 ± 2.9	0.69	0.51
Total	46.9 ± 12.7	0.70	46.3 ± 12.2	0.71	47.1 ± 12.8	0.70	0.77

α: Cronbach’s alpha

^aAlpha for the individual items refers to alpha for scale if item deleted

ICC intraclass correlation coefficients