The CREATION Health Assessment Tool for Patients (CHAT-P): Development & Psychometric Testing

The CREATION Model is a whole-person wellness model facilitating patient-provider partnerships for health promotion. CREATION is an acronym that represents eight whole-person health principles: Choice, Rest, Environment-Interpersonal Relationships, Activity, Trust, Outlook, and Nutrition, all focusing on the relationship between individual choice and physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health. This study develops and tests the psychometric properties of the CREATION Health Assessment Tool for Patients (CHAT-P). A 125-item-bank using a 5-point Likert scale with 1 to 5 rating was generated through focus-groups of clinicians, patients, and healthcare leaders. An expert panel assessed content adequacy, reducing items to 82. Patient survey data (n = 599) from 15 inpatient medical units were randomly divided into two datasets. Exploratory Factor Analysis applied to Dataset 1 resulted in a 7-factor (Choice/Rest/Environment-Interpersonal Relationships/Activity/Trust/Outlook/Nutrition) and 28-item tool with factor loading 0.47-0.86. The model structure was confirmed by Structural Equation Modeling on Dataset 2 with goodness-of-fit test results: X²/df = 2.41 < 5.0, RMSEA = 0.05 < 0.08, GFI = 0.91 and AGFI = 0.90. Cronbach's Alpha = 0.83 showed satisfactory reliability. The final CHAT-P totals ranged from 28-140 (higher scores indicating better health/well-being). When assessing the effectiveness of educational/behavioral interventions, this tool can measure the improvement of a patient's overall mind-body-spirit well-being or measure well-being for individual CREATION principle(s). It fills that gap and facilitates healthcare providers' ability to assess and plan interventions to support holistic well-being.