Development and testing of a survey measure of organizational perinatal patient-centered care culture.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and test a measure of patient-centered care (PCC) culture in hospital-based perinatal care.

Data sources

Data were obtained from US perinatal hospitals: one provided survey development data and 14 contributed data for survey testing.

Study design

We used qualitative and quantitative methods to develop the mother-infant centered care (MICC) culture survey. Qualitative methods included observation, focus group, interviews, and expert consultations to adapt items from other settings and create new items capturing dimensions of PCC articulated by The Commonwealth Fund. We quantitatively assessed survey psychometric properties using reliability (Cronbach's α and Pearson correlation coefficients) and validity (exploratory and confirmatory factor analysi

SUBMITTER: Handley SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9264452 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature