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Table 4 Information on the PACIC domains and overall PACIC score

From: The Patients Assessment Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) questionnaire in The Netherlands: a validation study in rural general practice

 

Overall

PACIC

score

Patient

activation

Delivery

system/practice

design

Goal setting/

tailoring

Problem

solving/

contextual

Follow-up/

coordination

Number of items in the domain

20

3

3

5

4

5

Available sample for data-analysis

114

130

132

123

118

124

Patients with missing scores on more than one third of the items

(% of total number of patients)

31%

21%

20%

25%

28%

25%

Mean value (SD) for all responders

2.9 (1.0)

3.2 (1.3)

3.5 (1.2)

2.5 (1.1)

3.3 (1.4)

3.1 (1.1)

Mean value (SD) for diabetes patients

3.2 (1.0)

3.4 (1.2)

3.9 (1.1)

2.9 (1.1)

2.5 (1.3)

2.0 (0.8)

Mean value (SD) for COPD patients

2.3 (0.8)

3.0 (1.3)

3.0 (1.2)

1.8 (0.8)

3.0 (1.4)

2.7 (1/1)

Effect of aggregated Europep score (b coefficient, p-value)

0.72

(p < 0.004)

0.88

(p < 0.003)

0.88

(p < 0.002)

0.50

(p < 0.064)

0.87

(p < 0.011)

0.74

(p < 0.009)

Effect of aggregated enablement score (b coefficient, SD)

-1.13

(p < 0.000)

-0.06

(p < 0.801)

-0.15

(p < 0.000)

-1.13

(p < 0.001)

-0.20

(p < 0.000)

-0.08

(p < 0.030)

Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency

0.93

0.85

0.75

0.81

0.87

0.71

Intra class coefficient (absolute agreement)

0.91

0.85

0.66

0.76

0.86

0.66