Development and Psychometric Testing of a Chinese Version of Patient-Centered Care Scale

Patient-centered care is the degree to which medical care involves patients and satisfies their individual needs and expectations. Patient-centered care contributes to patients' satisfaction, health behaviors, and health outcomes. As there is a lack of appropriate Chinese-language survey instruments for assessing patient-centered care, this study adopted and translated the well-developed Patient-centered Care Scale. The semantic equivalence between the original English version and the translated Chinese version was examined by using two-step forward and backward translations. Two hundred and four in-patients in a northern Taiwan medical center were surveyed. The translated Chinese version exhibited sufficient internal consistency, parallel-form reliability, convergent validity, and criterion-related validity, and will allow health service managers in Chinese-language contexts to evaluate whether the individual needs of patients are satisfied and provide patient-centered care.