Trust in Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Instruments Designed to Measure Trust in Medical Care Studies.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This scoping review study was conducted with the aim of identifying dimensions of trust in medical care, common trust subjects, and medical trust correlates among available instruments.

Methods

We carried out a scoping review of literature through Medline, EMBASE, Scopus, Google Scholar engine, and various information sources of grey literature, to identify eligible studies up to 2023. We merely included psychometric studies in these areas. Non-psychometrics studies were excluded. Two assessors independently and carefully chose papers and abstracted records for qualitative exploration.

Results

Fifty-two studies (n=37228 participants) were included in the review. The majority of the participants 67 % (24943) were adults (≥18). One-dimensionality trust was

SUBMITTER: Sarbazi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11417298 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature