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[Design and validation of the ACPAPS questionnaire to assess person-centred care by the family doctor].

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Design, construction and validation of a self-completion test that allows the Family Physician (FP) to assess the extent to which he/she integrates person-centred care (PCC) in his/her clinical practice.

Design

Qualitative. Questionnaire design.

Location

Primary care.

Participants

Two hundred and fourteen family and community medicine physicians and residents, from 62 of the 80 health centres in the autonomous community of Murcia (Spain).

Methods

Construction of a questionnaire from a bank of 873 items from a systematic review and a Delphi study. Review by PCC panel of experts (8). Cognitive pretest with 10 FP. Doctors from 62 health centres were invited to participate. With the responses we measured reliability, validity and feasibility.

Results

The final questionnaire contains 37 items. We measured reliability through internal consistency with a Cronbach's alpha of .915. For construct validity, the appropriate Bartlett's test of sphericity and the Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin measure of .889 allowed us to carry out a factor analysis with the extraction of nine factors (Kaiser's rule) with five main factors (Scree test) whose items coincide with the dimensions proposed by the experts. To assess its feasibility we considered the response rate of 31.15%, the response time of 17minutes 23seconds and only .9% of respondents considered the questionnaire long or complex.

Conclusions

The ACPAPS questionnaire is a reliable, valid and feasible tool to assess PCC in FM, which has multiple and far-reaching applications.

SUBMITTER: Pascual Lopez JA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10498171 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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[Design and validation of the ACPAPS questionnaire to assess person-centred care by the family doctor].

Pascual López José Antonio JA Menárguez Puche Juan Francisco JF Sánchez Sánchez Juan Antonio JA Zarza Arribas María M

Atencion primaria 20230908 12

<h4>Objectives</h4>Design, construction and validation of a self-completion test that allows the Family Physician (FP) to assess the extent to which he/she integrates person-centred care (PCC) in his/her clinical practice.<h4>Design</h4>Qualitative. Questionnaire design.<h4>Location</h4>Primary care.<h4>Participants</h4>Two hundred and fourteen family and community medicine physicians and residents, from 62 of the 80 health centres in the autonomous community of Murcia (Spain).<h4>Methods</h4>Co ...[more]

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[Design and validation of the ACPAPS questionnaire to assess person-centred care by the family doctor].

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