title: The Patient-Centredness Multi-Choice Questionnaire: developing an instrument for the measurement of patient-centredness in student nurses.
abstract: An earlier paper by the writer reported on the construction and administration of an instrument for the measurement of therapeutic attitudes in student nurses. This paper continues that work by producing a short, appropriate and easily administered test, known as the Patient-Centredness Multi-Choice Questionnaire. The instrument was tested for validity and reliability, and was piloted on a large group of new Project 2000 students from several colleges and institutes of nursing, to produce a database for use in further studies.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Studies, St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rolfe
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004645:Empathy; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*