The discriminative power of the ReproQ: a client experience questionnaire in maternity care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of the ReproQuestionnaire (ReproQ) is to measure the client's experience with maternity care, following WHO's responsiveness model. To support quality improvement, ReproQ should be able to discriminate best from worst organisational units.

Methods

We sent questionnaires to 27,487 third-trimester pregnant women (response 31%) and to 37,230 women 6 weeks after childbirth (response 39%). For analysis we first summarized the ReproQ domain scores into three summary scores: total score (all eight domains), personal score (four personal domains), and setting score (four setting domains). Second, we estimated the proportion of variance across perinatal units attributable to the 'actual' difference across perinatal units using intraclass correlation coefficients (I

SUBMITTER: Scheerhagen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884994 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature