Assessment of the Reliability and Validity of the Clinical Reception Attitude Scale / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Objective:To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Clinical Reception Attitude Scale .Meth-odsBased on the survey of 311 outpatients from 4 first-class hospitals , the test-retest reliability , internal con-sistency , construct validity , criterion validities and discriminant validity of the scale was tested .Results:The test-retest reliability was 0.901, the internal consistency was 0.973, 4 common factors accounted for 80.0%of the total variation, the items of which matched the construct of the scale , the criterion validities were 0.856 and 0 .810 , the discriminant validity was good .Conclusions: The results indicated the Clinical Reception Attitude Scale had good reliability and validity .The adjusted scale is an effective tool for the investigation of clinical recep-tion attitude of doctors in China .