A 2-item version of the Japanese Consultation and Relational Empathy measure: a pilot study using secondary analysis of a cross-sectional survey in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure is a patient-reported measure of physician empathy which is widely used internationally. The Japanese version of the CARE measure has very high internal reliability, suggesting that a shorter version may have adequate validity and reliability.

Objective

To investigate a valid shorter version of the Japanese CARE measure.

Methods

We conducted a pilot study using secondary analysis of previous data obtained from 9 general practitioners and 252 patients and used to develop the Japanese CARE measure. All 1,023 possible combinations of the Japanese CARE items (n = 1-10) were candidates for the short measure. The internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) and the correlations between candidate short questionnair

SUBMITTER: Takahashi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9680666 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature