DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP SCALE FOR STUDENTS OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT

Entrepreneurship in health sector comes into more prominence day by day. Especially the increasing population sets the entrepreneurs in this sector in motion and encourages them to embark on different quests in order to offer better service in health sector. Therefore, educated individuals who can produce better and higher quality service, seize the opportunities in the sector, take positive and negative risks and develop new points of views in the health management sector are required. The purpose of the present research is developing a scientifically valid and reliable scale that measures the entrepreneurship of the health management department students. The work group of the present research is 291 health management department students studying at Selcuk University, Faculty of Health Sciences. The findings on the structural validity of the developed scale were handled with factor analysis. Principal component analysis showed that the items in the scale were accumulated in one single dimension. Cronbach alpha value was used for the reliability studies of the developed scale. Findings show that internal consistency coefficient of the scale is at a high level.