Parent experiences of diabetes care questionnaire (PEQ-DC): reliability and validity following a national survey in Norway

Table 5 Construct validity testing: associations between scales, background variables and responses to individual questions

	Consultation	Organisation	Equipment	Nurse contact	Doctor contact	Outcome
Number of times participated in whole or parts of the consultation during the last year	0.16***	0.13***	0.16***	0.15***	0.14***	0.19***
Education	**	*	***	*	Ns	**
Primary school	85.03	78.31	77.92	88.91	88.28	86.10
Secondary school	79.51	73.96	66.52	86.45	84.82	81.10
University or college (0–4 years)	76.31	72.24	62.94	84.07	83.82	78.23
University or college (4 ≥ years)	77.16	73.35	64.85	85.01	83.81	77.88
What do you think about the number of consultations at the paediatric department?	***	***	***	***	***	***
Too few or too many	66.47	64.45	52.44	78.50	74.91	67.45
Appropriate	79.73	74.84	67.28	86.49	85.88	81.29

***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05; ns: not significant. Spearman’s rank correlations (r) for continuous variables. One-way ANOVA for “Education” and Independent-Samples T-Test for “What do you think about the number of consultations at the paediatric department?”

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