Psychometric evaluation of the English language Person-centred Climate Questionnaire--staff version.
OBJECTIVE
The present study aimed to evaluate psychometric properties of the English language Person-centred Climate Questionnaire--staff version (PCQ-S).


BACKGROUND
Person-centred care emphasizes the individual's perspective in the care process. However, the concept is subject to some debate and few measurement tools exist.


METHODS
During 2 months in 2007, the Swedish PCQ-S was translated to English and distributed to a sample of Australian hospital staff (n = 52). Psychometric evaluation using statistical estimates of validity and reliability were performed.


RESULTS
The 14-item questionnaire showed high reliability as Cronbach's alpha was satisfactory for the total scale (0.89), and for the four subscales: 0.87, 0.79, 0.82 and 0.69. Test-retest reliability were evaluated in a subsample of 40 staff and resulted in P-values >0.05 between mean scores of the PCQ-S at test and retest, r-values between 0.6 and 0.9, and a two-way mixed effects model, single measures intra-class correlations of 0.75 with a confidence interval of 0.58-0.86. Validity of the scale needs further evaluation.


CONCLUSIONS
The English PCQ-S makes possible studies of associations between person-centredness and different organizational systems, environments, staff characteristics and health and managerial styles. However, scale validity needs further evaluation.
Edvardsson
David
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Department of Nursing, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. david.edvardsson@nurs.umu.se
Koch
Susan
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Nay
Rhonda
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D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D003142:Communication; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009729:Nursing; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012931:Social Environment; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating; D017132:Workplace