Validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the partners at care transitions measure

BMC Health Services Research

Meng-jie Sun¹  Bei-lei Lin¹  Ment-ting Liu¹  Qiu-fang Li¹  Jia-nan Wang¹  Peng Wang¹  La-mei Liu² 

[1] School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Science Avenue, High-tech district, 450000, Zhengzhou City, Henan province, China;School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Science Avenue, High-tech district, 450000, Zhengzhou City, Henan province, China;School of Nursing, Philippine Women’s University, Manila, Philippines;

关键词: Transition care;    Measure;    Tool;    Validation;    Reliability;    Patient quality;    Safety;    Older patients;    Chronic diseases;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12913-021-07298-z

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe Partners at Care Transitions Measure (PACT-M) is a measure that assesses the quality and safety of care during the transition from hospital to home from the patient’s perspective. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the PACT-M in Mainland China.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study. A convenience sample of patients was recruited from threetertiary hospitals affiliated with Zhengzhou University, China. A total of 402 participants were interviewed before discharge, and 306 participants were interviewed one month after discharge from hospital to home using the Chinese version of the PACT-M. The statistical methods used in this study include the critical ratio value, item total correlation, test-retest, Cronbach’s alpha, confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis.ResultsThe Chinese version of the PACT-M consists of PACT-M1 and PACT-M2, both of which have two dimensions, the number of items in both parts are consistent with the original English language version. The Cronbach’s alpha values of the PACT-M1 and PACT-M2 were 0.802 and 0.741, and the test-retest reliability values were 0.885 and 0.837. The item content validity index and scale content validity index values of the PACT-M1 and PACT-M2 were all 1.0.ConclusionThe Chinese version of the PACT-M shows acceptable validity and reliability and can be used to assess the quality and safety of transitional care from hospital to home from the patient’s perspective in mainland China.

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