TY - JOUR
T1 - Facilitation of patient involvement in care
T2 - Development and validation of a scale
AU - Martin, Leslie R.
AU - DiMatteo, M. Robin
AU - Lepper, Heidi S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by a Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant and Intramural and Field Research Grants from the University of California, Riverside. Additional support was provided by the Pew Charitable Trust; the Research Network on Health and Behavior of the John D. antl Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Committee on Research at the University of California, Riverside; and the University Research Committee at La Sierra University. A portion of this research was presented at the 102nd Annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Los Angeles, August 1994.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The authors describe the development and validation of the Facilitation of Patient Involvement Scale, a 9-item measure of the degree to which patients perceive that their physicians actively facilitate or encourage them to be involved in their own healthcare. They first assessed the unidimensionality of the measure, conducting factor analysis in a pilot study of 236 individuals. Subsequently, they assessed the scale's reliability and validity with additional samples of 333, 338, 44, and 84 participants. Reliability of the scale was very high, with average Cronbach's α levels of. 91. To test the validity of the scale, they used correlational and multiple regression analyses. The findings indicated that patients' satisfaction with their medical encounters was associated with patients' perceptions of facilitation; that perceptions of facilitation were also moderately correlated with general adherence patterns and preferred communication styles; and that patient age, gender, and education level were not relevant to perceptions that healthcare professionals promote patients' involvement in their own care.
AB - The authors describe the development and validation of the Facilitation of Patient Involvement Scale, a 9-item measure of the degree to which patients perceive that their physicians actively facilitate or encourage them to be involved in their own healthcare. They first assessed the unidimensionality of the measure, conducting factor analysis in a pilot study of 236 individuals. Subsequently, they assessed the scale's reliability and validity with additional samples of 333, 338, 44, and 84 participants. Reliability of the scale was very high, with average Cronbach's α levels of. 91. To test the validity of the scale, they used correlational and multiple regression analyses. The findings indicated that patients' satisfaction with their medical encounters was associated with patients' perceptions of facilitation; that perceptions of facilitation were also moderately correlated with general adherence patterns and preferred communication styles; and that patient age, gender, and education level were not relevant to perceptions that healthcare professionals promote patients' involvement in their own care.
KW - Active patienthood
KW - Patient involvement
KW - Physician-facilitated involvement
KW - Physician-patient collaboration
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U2 - 10.1080/08964280109595777
DO - 10.1080/08964280109595777
M3 - Article
C2 - 11985184
SN - 0896-4289
VL - 27
SP - 111
EP - 120
JO - Behavioral Medicine
JF - Behavioral Medicine
IS - 3
ER -