title: Preliminary validation of a scale to measure patient perceived similarity to their navigator.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A central premise in deployment of community health workers (CHW) is that CHWs share key characteristics with their patients. We sought to develop a scale to measure this construct called the Perceived Navigator Similarity (PNS) questionnaire.
  
  
  METHODS
  We adopted items from a similarly developed scale, patient perceived similarity to their physicians, and examined its psychometric properties among 51 patients who were navigated for cancer care by a CHW.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Principal component analysis revealed two main factors: personal and ethnic. The scale was associated with greater satisfaction with navigation (p < 0.005) and cancer care (p < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The PNS shows promise for further validation in larger samples assessing navigator-patient similarity from the patient perspective.
authors: Department of Family Medicine Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1381 South Ave, Rochester, NY, 14620, USA. mechelle_sanders@urmc.rochester.edu.|Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, USA. mechelle_sanders@urmc.rochester.edu.
authors: Mechelle
authors: M
authors: Sanders
authors: Department of Family Medicine Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1381 South Ave, Rochester, NY, 14620, USA. Paul_winters@urmc.rochester.edu.
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Winters
authors: Department of Family Medicine Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1381 South Ave, Rochester, NY, 14620, USA. Kevin_Fiscella@urmc.rochester.edu.|Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, USA. Kevin_Fiscella@urmc.rochester.edu.
authors: Kevin
authors: K
authors: Fiscella
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*