Assessment of patients' expectations: development and validation of the Expectation for Treatment Scale (ETS).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a short self-report instrument for the assessment of expectations (Expectation for Treatment Scale(ETS)) using acupuncture as a case example.

Design

A cross-sectional assessment with retest after 1 week.

Setting

A web-based survey with patients suffering from pain.

Methods

In a three-step approach, we reduced the initially collected number of items from 17 to 9 and to 5, including expectations about coping ability, vitality, physical health and reduction of patient complaints. Items were selected according to internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha); convergent and divergent validities with related constructs (optimism, pessimism, resilience, perceived sensitivity to medicines, depression and others); 1-week retest reliability (intraclass co

SUBMITTER: Barth J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6585827 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature