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| Title |
Measuring empathic, person-centred communication in primary care nurses: validity and reliability of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure
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| Published in |
BMC Primary Care, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12875-015-0374-y |
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| Authors |
Annemieke P. Bikker, Bridie Fitzpatrick, Douglas Murphy, Stewart W. Mercer |
| Abstract |
Empathic patient-centred care is central to high quality health encounters. The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure is a patient-rated experience measure of the interpersonal quality of healthcare encounters. The measure has been extensively validated and is widely used by doctors in primary care but has not been validated in nursing. This study assessed the validity and reliability of the CARE Measure in routine nurse consultations in primary care. Seventeen nurses from nine general medical practices located in three Scottish Health Boards participated in the study. Consecutive patients (aged 16 years or older) were asked to self-complete a questionnaire containing the CARE Measure immediately after their clinical encounter with the nurse. Statistical analysis included Spearman's correlation and principal component analysis (construct validity), Cronbach's alpha (internal consistency), and Generalisability theory (inter-rater reliability). A total of 774 patients (327 male and 447 female) completed the questionnaire. Almost three out of four patients (73 %) felt that the CARE Measure items were very important to their current consultation. The number of 'not applicable' responses and missing values were low overall (5.7 and 1.6 % respectively). The mean CARE Measure score in the consultations was 45.9 and 48 % achieved the maximum possible score of 50. CARE Measure scores correlated in predicted ways with overall satisfaction and patient enablement in support of convergent and divergent validity. Factor analysis found that the CARE Measure items loaded highly onto a single factor. The measure showed high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient = 0.97) and acceptable inter-rater reliability (G = 0.6 with 60 patients ratings per nurse). The scores were not affected by patients' age, gender, self-perceived overall health, living arrangements, employment status or language spoken at home. The CARE Measure has high face and construct validity, and internal reliability in nurse consultations in primary care. Its ability to discriminate between nurses is sufficient for educational and quality improvement purposes. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 3 | 75% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 196 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 38 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 9% |
| Researcher | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 14 | 7% |
| Other | 45 | 23% |
| Unknown | 45 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 42 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 38 | 19% |
| Psychology | 25 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 18 | 9% |
| Unknown | 58 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 October 2018.
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#14,783,688
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from BMC Primary Care
#1,301
of 2,359 outputs
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#139,093
of 294,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Primary Care
#27
of 46 outputs
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