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Int J Qual Health Care · Aug 2009
Validation of a French hospitalized patients' satisfaction questionnaire: the QSH-45.
- Stéphanie Antoniotti, Karine Baumstarck-Barrau, Marie-Claude Siméoni, Christophe Sapin, José Labarère, Laurent Gerbaud, Laurent Boyer, Cyril Colin, Patrice François, and Pascal Auquier.
- Department of Public Health, University Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, France.
- Int J Qual Health Care. 2009 Aug 1; 21 (4): 243-52.
ObjectiveTo develop a generic French self-administered instrument for measuring hospitalized patients' satisfaction based on the patient's point of view: the questionnaire for satisfaction of hospitalized (QSH) patients.DesignThe development was supervised by a steering committee and undertaken through three standard steps. Item generation was derived from 95 face-to-face interviews, performed in hospitalized patients and in patients scheduled to be admitted. The item reduction led to a 69-item questionnaire. The validation process was based on validity, reliability and some aspects of external validity.SettingMedical, surgical and obstetrical departments (n = 187) of public hospitals (n = 11) from different French regions (n = 3).ParticipantsEligible patients were adult subjects hospitalized for at least 24 h.Main Outcome MeasuresQSH, sociodemographic data, hospitalization department, visual analogue scales of satisfaction.ResultsThe final version of QSH contained 45 items describing 9 dimensions, leading to 2 composite scores (staff and structure index). The factor structure accounted for 71% of the total variance. Internal consistency was satisfactory (item-internal consistency over 0.40; Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranged from 0.76 to 0.96). The scalability was satisfactory with inlier-sensitive fit (INFIT) statistics inside an acceptable range. Scores of dimensions were strongly positively correlated with visual analogue scale scores (all P < 0.001). External validity showed statistical associations between QSH scores and age or department. Participation rate was 91%.ConclusionsThe availability of a reliable and valid French questionnaire concerning hospitalized patients' satisfaction, exclusively generated from patients' interviews, enables patient feedback to be incorporated in a continuous quality health-care improvement strategy.
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