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. 2017 Oct 2;4(2):2055102917730675.
doi: 10.1177/2055102917730675. eCollection 2017 Jul-Dec.

Validation of the English and French versions of the Brief Health Care Climate Questionnaire

Zofia Czajkowska  1 , Hui Wang  1 , Nathan C Hall  1 , Maida Sewitch  2 , Annett Körner  1
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Validation of the English and French versions of the Brief Health Care Climate Questionnaire

Zofia Czajkowska et al. Health Psychol Open. .

Abstract

Patient autonomy is a central value in medicine and critical component of adherence to medical advice. This article reports on a validation of the 6-item version of the Health Care Climate Questionnaire (HCCQ), a measure of autonomy support in health care settings, in a sample of 242 melanoma patients. The HCCQ showed excellent internal consistency (α = .91), structural validity (Tucker-Lewis index = .99; comparative fit index = .99; root mean square error of approximation = .06, 90 per cent confidence interval (.00, .11); standardized root mean square residual = .02; χ2 (8, N = 235) = 13.99, p = .08) and construct validity (92.31% of hypothesized correlations with other measures confirmed). Acceptable 3-month test-retest reliability was observed (r = .55, p < .001; intraclass correlation coefficient (A, 1) = .54, p < .001). The French version was found equivalent to the English version.

Keywords: Health Care Climate Questionnaire; Health Care Climate Questionnaire–brief version; Health Care Climate Questionnaire–short version; Health Care Climate Questionnaire–version francaise; melanoma; patient autonomy; skin cancer; validation.

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Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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