title: Quality of community-based day centre services for people with psychiatric disabilities: psychometric properties of the Quality in Psychiatric Care - Daily Activities (QPC-DA).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study was to test the psychometric properties and dimensionality of the instrument Quality in Psychiatric Care - Daily Activities (QPC-DA) and to briefly describe the day centre attendees' perception of the quality at community-based day centre services.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sample of 218 attendees from 14 community-based day centre services in seven municipalities in Sweden participated in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the QPC-DA consists of six dimensions and has a factor structure that to a large extent corresponds to that found in other studies of quality in psychiatric care settings, such as inpatient, outpatient, forensic inpatient, and housing support for people with psychiatric disabilities. The internal consistency of the factors was satisfactory and thus the QPC-DA showed adequate psychometric properties. The attendees' ratings of quality of community-based day centre services were generally high. The highest rating was for the encounter dimension and the lowest for the participation and the secluded environment dimensions, indicating areas for improvement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The QPC-DA includes important aspects of the attendees' assessment of quality of community-based day centre services and offers a simple and inexpensive way to evaluate quality from their perspective.
authors.affiliation: a Centre for Rehabilitation Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University , Örebro , Sweden ;
authors.forename: Lars-Olov
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Lundqvist
authors.affiliation: b School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University , Örebro , Sweden ;
authors.forename: Ann-Britt
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Ivarsson
authors.affiliation: c School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University , Växjö , Sweden ;
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brunt
authors.affiliation: c School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University , Växjö , Sweden ;
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rask
authors.affiliation: d Psychiatric Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University , Örebro , Sweden.
authors.forename: Agneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schröder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden
keywords: Daily activities; psychiatric disabilities; psychometric properties; quality of care; questionnaire