Patient-centered infertility questionnaire for female clients (PCIQ-F): part I: questionnaire development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient-centered care is an essential component of health care quality. To achieve patient-centered care, health care authorities should have a clear definition and an applicable tool to measure the extent of its application. The real concept of patient centeredness should be developed by the patients themselves. We aimed to demonstrate a way to develop a draft Arabic patient-centered infertility care (PCIC) questionnaire for females clients following practical steps that address women with infertility.

Methods

An iterative process of questionnaire development was undertaken by combining two approaches: the steps proposed by Robert F. DeVellis for scale development and the recommended practices for questionnaire development and testing in the European statistical

SUBMITTER: Webair HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8454158 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature