Development and Validity of the Questionnaire of Patients’ Experiences in Postacute Outpatient Physical Therapy Settings
Author/s
Medina Mirapeix, FrancescDate
2015Discipline/s
Actividad Física y DeporteMedicina
Terapia y Rehabilitación
Subject/s
Quality of Health CarePhysical Therapy Department
Outpatients
Abstract
Background: Patient feedback surveys are increasingly seen as a key component of 2 healthcare quality monitoring and improvement. Objective: To describe the 3 development and initial psychometric evaluation of a fixed-length questionnaire of 4 Patients’ Experiences undergoing physical therapy treatment in a Post-Acute 5 Outpatients settings (PEPAP-Q). Design: An instrument development study with 6 validity and reliability testing. Methods: A total of 465 patients from three 7 rehabilitation centres for musculoskeletal conditions completed the questionnaire. A 8 cognitive pretest was applied to the draft version (n=94), and a revised version was 9 tested for test-retest reliability (n=90). Analyses to evaluate variance and non-response 10 rates to items, the factor structure of the questionnaire and the metric properties of 11 multi-item scales were conducted. Results: Exploratory factor analyses yielded 12 evidence for a seven-factor structure to the PEPAP-Q, with three factors that ma...