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An instrument to measure patient satisfaction with healthcare in an observational database: results of a validation
D P Lubeck1, M S Litwin, J M Henning
1University of California, San Francisco 94109, USA. dlubeck@itsa.ucsf.edu
Objective:
To validate a satisfaction measure for use in longitudinal, prospective studies of patient care.
Study Design:
Patients with biopsy-confirmed prostate cancer (n = 228) who were enrolled in CaPSURE (Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor) completed a self-administered questionnaire that included a health-related quality-of-life and satisfaction measure. A subset of patients completed the questionnaire again within 30 days.
Methods:
The satisfaction measure contained 6 individual subscales: overall satisfaction with care, contact with providers, confidence in providers, communication skills, humaneness, and a summary scale. Six items surveyed patients' willingness to participate in decision making (participatory style), and these were averaged into a single score. Variability, reliability, stability, and validity were evaluated.
Results:
Responses to the items varied substantially. The overall satisfaction scale demonstrated good internal consistency reliability (Cronbach alpha = 0.82) and moderate test-retest reliability (0.62), and it could discriminate between groups of individuals expected to differ with regard to satisfaction (by age and disease stage). Subscale internal consistency reliability (0.37-0.54) and stability (0.38-0.63) were weaker, suggesting that only a single scale should be reported. The participatory scale performed poorly and could not be recommended for future use.
Conclusion:
The overall satisfaction measure developed for this study demonstrated good reliability and validity and should be useful in other population-based studies in conjunction with other outcome measures.
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