Preliminary Establishment of Chinese Doctor-Patient Trust Scales and their Reliability and Validity

Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2019-08-14

吕小康 弥明迪 余华冉 王晖 姜鹤 何非

Abstract： In order to compile the Chinese Doctor-Patient Trust Scales, after a series of analysis of pre-tested, such as items analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, 9 items of the Patients’ Presupposed Trust Subscale, 13 items of the Patients’ Realistic Trust Subscale and 8 items of the Physicians’ Trust Scale were established. And in this way, a preliminary test was conducted on 2658 patients and 1229 doctors in a convenience sampling manner nationwide. The results of both tests show that the Patients’ Trust Scale can only be used as a single-dimensional total scale, while the Physicians’ Trust Scale can be divided into two dimensions: “relationship perception” and “defense mentality”. The internal consistency coefficients of the Patients’ Presupposed Trust Subscale, the Patients’ Realistic Trust Subscale, and the Physicians’ Trust Scale are 0.71, 0.85, and 0.63 respectively. The parameters of the criterion validity and confirmatory factor analysis are all within the acceptable range. The validity of the expert evaluation of the test is adequate. The Patients’ Presupposed Trust Subscale can be used to understand the general trust level of the patients to the doctor community from the intergroup level. The Patients’ Realistic Trust Subscale can be used to understand the patients’ special trust level to the specific doctor from the interpersonal level; The Physicians’ Trust Scale can be used to assess the trust of the physician in the individual patient they are receiving. The combination of the three can be used to assess the trust matching between doctors and patients. "

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