Preventing stress-related ill health among newly registered nurses by supporting engagement in proactive behaviors: development and feasibility testing of a behavior change intervention

Table 1 Names, references, number of items, scale ranges, and mean and standard deviations of measures at baseline (time 0)

	Variable	Reference	Items	Scale	M (SD)
	Primary outcomes
1	Stress	Kjellberg and Iwanowski 1989	6	1–6	3.75 (0.87)
	Process variables
4	Role clarity	Dallner et al. 2000	3	1–5	3.88 (0.60)
5	Social acceptance	Aurell et al. 2015	2	1–5	4.09 (0.82)
6	Mastery of tasks	Aurell et al. 2015	2	1–5	3.60 (0.74)
	Behavior variables
7	Proactivity	Reeves, 2013	4	1–5	3.15 (0.67)
8	Avoidance of proactivity	Developed for this study	2	1–5	1.96 (0.80)

M mean, SD standard deviation, scale range Stress 1 = not at all to 6 = very much, scale range Role clarity, Social acceptance, Mastery of tasks/Proactivity, and Avoidance of proactivity 1 = never to 5 always (measured at time 1 [not included at time 0])

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