RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Physician Enabling Skills Questionnaire
JF Canadian Family Physician
JO Can Fam Physician
FD The College of Family Physicians of Canada
SP e517
OP e523
VO 61
IS 11
A1 Catherine Hudon
A1 Mireille Lambert
A1 José Almirall
YR 2015
UL http://www.cfp.ca/content/61/11/e517.abstract
AB Objective To evaluate the reliability and validity of the newly developed Physician Enabling Skills Questionnaire (PESQ) by assessing its internal consistency, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity with patient-centred care, and predictive validity with patient activation and patient enablement.Design Validation study.Setting Saguenay, Que.Participants One hundred patients with at least 1 chronic disease who presented in a waiting room of a regional health centre family medicine unit.Main outcome measures Family physicians’ enabling skills, measured with the PESQ at 2 points in time (ie, while in the waiting room at the family medicine unit and 2 weeks later through a mail survey); patient-centred care, assessed with the Patient Perception of Patient-Centredness instrument; patient activation, assessed with the Patient Activation Measure; and patient enablement, assessed with the Patient Enablement Instrument.Results The internal consistency of the 6 subscales of the PESQ was adequate (Cronbach α = .69 to .92). The test-retest reliability was very good (r = 0.90; 95% CI 0.84 to 0.93). Concurrent validity with the Patient Perception of Patient-Centredness instrument was good (r = −0.67; 95% CI −0.78 to −0.53; P < .001). The PESQ accounts for 11% of the total variance with the Patient Activation Measure (r2 = 0.11; P = .002) and 19% of the variance with the Patient Enablement Instrument (r2 = 0.19; P < .001).Conclusion The newly developed PESQ presents good psychometric properties, allowing for its use in practice and research.