The development of a questionnaire to assess the willingness of Chinese community health workers to implement advance care planning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To develop a questionnaire to evaluate the willingness of Chinese health care workers to implement an advance care planning (ACP) program for patients in a Chinese cultural context.

Methods

Guided by the framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), a literature analysis and semi-structured interviews were conducted to create a pool of questionnaire items, and then the initial assessment questionnaire was developed by two rounds of expert consultations. A random sampling method was used to pre-survey 204 health care workers in community health service centers (CHSCs) in three urban areas of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The final questionnaire was derived from item analysis and exploratory factor analysis.

Results

Based on exploratory factor analysis, f

SUBMITTER: Miao Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9461251 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature