title: Psychometric testing of the Slovenian Person-centred Climate Questionnaire - staff version.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test the psychometric properties of the Slovenian version of the Person-centred Climate Questionnaire - staff version.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Person-centredness can be a quality care indicator, but there are no valid and reliable instruments in the Slovene language aimed at exploring the person-centred care climate from a nursing staff perspective.
  
  
  METHODS
  Content validity based on expert agreement was evaluated by calculating content validity indices. A cross-sectional survey design using a convenience sample of 790 nurses and nursing assistants from medical and surgical wards in 11 hospitals was used to test the construct validity and internal consistency reliability.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average content validity index for the scale was 0.97, all items had content validity indices higher than 0.78, showing satisfactory content validity. Three components, climate of safety, community and everydayness explained 71.22% of the variance in the data and thus confirmed scale dimensionality. Cronbach's α was acceptable for whole scale (0.90) and for subscales (0.89, 0.89 and 0.86).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Slovene version of the Person-centred Climate Questionnaire - staff version is valid and reliable and can be further used in surgical and medical wards in hospital settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The instrument enables further exploration of the relationships between perceived person-centredness and organisational outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Dominika
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4952-078X
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vrbnjak
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, University Clinical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Dušica
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pahor
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Povalej Bržan
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.|School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic., Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Edvardsson
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Majda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pajnkihar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017524:Slovenia; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating; D017132:Workplace / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: instrument development; person-centred care; reliability; validity