Validation of Persian Version of Suhanen et al.'s Individualized Care Scale

Mohammad Amin  Bahrami; Sara  Jambarsang; Mohammad  Ranjbar; Razieh  Montazeralfaraj; Atiye  Rabani

doi:10.18502/mshsj.v8i2.13648

Mohammad Amin Bahrami Associate Professor, Health Human Resources Research Center, Department of Healthcare Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Sara Jambarsang Associate Professor, Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Mohammad Ranjbar Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management Research Center, Department of Healthcare Management, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Razieh Montazeralfaraj Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management Research Center, Department of Healthcare Management, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Atiye Rabani MSc in Healthcare Management, Health Policy and Management Research Center, Department of Healthcare Management, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/mshsj.v8i2.13648

Keywords: Individualized care, Patient-centeredness, Patients' participation in care, Validation, Questionnaire

Abstract

Background: Individualized care is a concept that describes personal characteristics of patients in clinical conditions, their personal life situation, and their preferences in order to promote participation in decision-making. The purpose of this study was to validate the Persian version of the Suhanen et al.'s (2005) individualized care scale.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2019. Initially, the individualized care scale of Suhanen et al (2005) was translated in forward-backward way with 19 items and on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = completely disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = no opinion, 4 = agree, 5 = completely agree). Content and face validity were then assessed using the opinions of 10 health management professionals (majors of health care management, health policy and health economics) Internal reliability of the questionnaire was assessed using the opinions of 20 patients admitted to gynecology, internal medicine and surgery wards of Yazd 3 teaching hospitals, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.93) was calculated using SPSS ₂₀ software.

Results: The results of content validity calculation showed that all items of the current questionnaire had acceptable Content Validity Ratio, and the Content Validity Index was 0.73 for this questionnaire. Face validity analysis also demonstrated that all experts approved the questionnaire items. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole questionnaire was 0.93, and for "clinical status", "personal life situation" and "decision-making control over care," was 0.90, 0.87 and 0.90 respectively; the values were acceptable, and the reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed; none of the items were removed.

Conclusion: The questionnaire can be used as a credible and valuable tool for assessing individualized patient care.