Development and validation of the Vietnamese primary care assessment tool.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To adapt the consumer version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) for Vietnam and determine its internal consistency and validity.

Design

A quantitative cross sectional study.

Setting

56 communes in 3 representative provinces of central Vietnam.

Participants

Total of 3289 people who used health care services at health facility at least once over the past two years.

Results

The Vietnamese adult expanded consumer version of the PCAT (VN PCAT-AE) is an instrument for evaluation of primary care in Vietnam with 70 items comprising six scales representing four core primary care domains, and three additional scales representing three derivative domains. Sixteen other items from the original tool were not included in the final instrument, due to

SUBMITTER: Hoa NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764365 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature