Content Validity of a Scale Designed to Measure the Access of Older Adults to Outpatient Health Services.

ABSTRACT: The objective of this work was to validate the content of a scale formulated in Spanish for older adults in Mexico, with the aim of comprehensively measuring the access of this population group to outpatient primary-care services. To this end, we carried out a methodological content-validity study in four stages: (1) construction of the scale; (2) evaluation of item legibility; (3) quantitative content evaluation by two groups of judges selected by convenience: participant-judges including older adults with adequate reading comprehension, surveyed in person (n = 23), and expert-judges comprised of researchers specialized in the fields of health services, psychometrics and aging, surveyed online (n = 7); and (4) collection of qualitative feedback from several of the participan

SUBMITTER: Santoyo-Sanchez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9407808 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature