Multistage Psychometric Testing of the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool.

ABSTRACT: People experiencing homelessness find it challenging to access the healthcare they so desperately need. To address this, we have developed the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool, which assesses health related vulnerability (burden of injury and/or illness and ability to access healthcare) and can be used to prioritize people for access to healthcare. Here, we report the initial psychometrics of the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool. To assess interrater reliability, clinician participants were invited to instinctually rate the health-related vulnerability of 18-fictional case studies and then apply the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool to these same case studies. To assess convergent validity, the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool and the tool it was adapted from, the Australian Vul

SUBMITTER: Currie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9738957 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature