title: Physician Enabling Skills Questionnaire:   Validation of a newly developed instrument in primary health care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the reliability and validity of the newly developed Physician Enabling Skills Questionnaire (PESQ) by assessing its internal consistency, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity with patient-centred care, and predictive validity with patient activation and patient enablement.
  
  
  METHODS
  Validation study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Saguenay, Que.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred patients with at least 1 chronic disease who presented in a waiting room of a regional health centre family medicine unit.
  
  
  METHODS
  Family physicians' enabling skills, measured with the PESQ at 2 points in time (ie, while in the waiting room at the family medicine unit and 2 weeks later through a mail survey); patient-centred care, assessed with the Patient Perception of Patient-Centredness instrument; patient activation, assessed with the Patient Activation Measure; and patient enablement, assessed with the Patient Enablement Instrument.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The internal consistency of the 6 subscales of the PESQ was adequate (Cronbach α = .69 to .92). The test-retest reliability was very good (r = 0.90; 95% CI 0.84 to 0.93). Concurrent validity with the Patient Perception of Patient-Centredness instrument was good (r = -0.67; 95% CI -0.78 to -0.53; P < .001). The PESQ accounts for 11% of the total variance with the Patient Activation Measure (r² = 0.11; P = .002) and 19% of the variance with the Patient Enablement Instrument (r² = 0.19; P < .001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The newly developed PESQ presents good psychometric properties, allowing for its use in practice and research.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hudon
authors.forename: Mireille
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Almirall
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010358:Patient Participation; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011594:Psychometrics; D011792:Quebec; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*