Psychometric Testing of a Comprehensive Patient Satisfaction Survey in Arabic.
OBJECTIVE
Although patient satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality of care received in hospitals, no reliable and valid Arabic comprehensive inpatient satisfaction survey has been published. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic patient satisfaction survey.


METHODS
A cross-sectional design was used where 1,339 randomly selected patients were interviewed by phone. The questionnaire was adopted and from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, refined and tested over a 4-year period.


RESULTS
Item-item correlations for the 22 items on the survey ranged from .52 to .92, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was .87. Construct and predictive validity were also adequate.


CONCLUSIONS
The survey is recommended for use in hospitals in Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries to facilitate benchmarking and quality improvement.
American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Iman Al
IA
Kouatly
Maha Mohamad Al
MM
Hassan
Nuhad
N
Yazbik-Doumit
Maher
M
Soubra
Sandy
S
Malak
Lina Kurdahi
LK
Badr
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D007861:Lebanon; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009736:Nursing Process; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult