ABSTRACT
Purpose
To analyze the psychometric properties of the Quality of Care Scale instrument applied to Care Network users for the Person with Disabilities.
Methods
This is an observational, analytical, and cross-sectional study. Interviews with 869 users of the specialized Care Network for the Person with Disabilities component were conducted through instruments of sociodemographic characterization, socioeconomic classification, and self-reported Quality of Care. The Quality of Care Scale research instrument contains 19 questions distributed between the professional and care, access, social needs, and information received axes. It was validated in Brazil in 2014 with a sample composed of people with intellectual and physical disabilities. In this study, the questions were led by researchers to people with intellectual, physical, hearing, visual, or multiple disabilities. For psychometric analysis, we used the item of Response Theory, and factorial analysis and measures of convergent validity and reliability.
Results
All items were relevant and with acceptable discrimination for the formation of the first order (Quality of Care axes) and second-order (Quality of Care indicator) constructs, except one information received the item, which was removed from the final model for having presented low factorial load. The constructs presented the required levels of reliability, convergent validation, and proper fit.
Conclusion
The psychometric analysis of the Quality of Care Scale instrument revealed that the final model presented in this paper can be expanded to measure the Quality of Care offered to people with intellectual, hearing, physical, visual, or multiple disabilities, users of Care Network for the Person with Disabilities.
Keywords:
Disabled persons; Quality of health care; Health evaluation; Validation studies; Scales