Article
Pilot Testing of a Psychological Readiness Screening Instrument for Health Sciences Students Prior to Clinical Field Placement: A Pilot Study
Jurnal Sublimapsi, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026), hlm. 1–10
Abstrak
Psychological readiness among health students before undertaking Fieldwork Practice is important to assess because academic, professional, and emotional demands may affect adaptation in the field, while brief multidimensional screening instruments suited to the Indonesian context remain limited. This underscores the need for a practical tool to identify problems early for preventive efforts. This study aimed to pilot-test a psychological readiness screening instrument for health students, developed through the adaptation of six internationally standardized measures. The quantitative pilot test involved 94 sixth-semester Public Health and Nutrition students at Ibn Khaldun University Bogor. The instrument consisted of 40 items rated on a four-point Likert scale and was administered online. Analyses included Cronbach's alpha coefficient, corrected item-total correlation, descriptive statistics, and category distribution. Results showed a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.886 and a 100% completion rate. Twenty-nine items met the selection criterion (r = 0.307–0.728), while 11 were eliminated. Sixty-six percent of respondents were categorized as Needs Attention; mastery motivation had the highest score and emotional suppression the lowest. The selected instrument warrants further factor-structure validation and development of local empirical norms to support preventive screening before fieldwork practice.