Separate but Related: Dimensions of Healthcare Provider Social Support in Day-Treatment Oncology Units.

ABSTRACT: Social support by healthcare providers has been increasingly investigated during the past decade, but studies have made different choices concerning its measurement. To evaluate how social support from a healthcare provider impacts the perceived quality of care and patient outcomes, reliable and valid instruments capable of measuring specific aspects of the construct are needed. In study 1, we tested the factor structure and the psychometric properties of a new Healthcare Provider Social Support measure (HPSS) for oncology settings. One-hundred-sixty-two patients (89 females; M age = 58.97, SD age = 13.28) from religious and government-operated hospitals completed the HPSS during day treatment. We modeled the HPSS factor structure to represent four related aspects: Emotional,

SUBMITTER: Tomai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9072867 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature