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Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13)

BACKGROUND: The American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM) is a 13-item instrument which assesses patient (or consumer) self-reported knowledge, skills and confidence for self-management of one’s health or chronic condition. In this study the PAM was translated into a Dutch version; psycho...

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Autores principales: Rademakers, Jany, Nijman, Jessica, van der Hoek, Lucas, Heijmans, Monique, Rijken, Mieke
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22849664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-577
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author Rademakers, Jany
Nijman, Jessica
van der Hoek, Lucas
Heijmans, Monique
Rijken, Mieke
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Nijman, Jessica
van der Hoek, Lucas
Heijmans, Monique
Rijken, Mieke
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description BACKGROUND: The American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM) is a 13-item instrument which assesses patient (or consumer) self-reported knowledge, skills and confidence for self-management of one’s health or chronic condition. In this study the PAM was translated into a Dutch version; psychometric properties of the Dutch version were established and the instrument was validated in a panel of chronically ill patients. METHODS: The translation was done according to WHO guidelines. The PAM 13-Dutch was sent to 4178 members of the Dutch National Panel of people with Chronic illness or Disability (NPCD) in April 2010 (study A) and again to a sub sample of this group (N = 973) in June 2010 (study B). Internal consistency, test-retest reliability and cross-validation with the SBSQ-D (a measure for Health literacy) were computed. The Dutch results were compared to similar Danish and American data. RESULTS: The psychometric properties of the PAM 13-Dutch were generally good. The level of internal consistency is good (α = 0.88) and item-rest correlations are moderate to strong. The Dutch mean PAM score (61.3) is comparable to the American (61.9) and lower than the Danish (64.2). The test-retest reliability was moderate. The association with Health literacy was weak to moderate. CONCLUSIONS: The PAM-13 Dutch is a reliable instrument to measure patient activation. More research is needed into the validity of the Patient Activation Measure, especially with respect to a more comprehensive measure of Health literacy.
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spelling pubmed-34908102012-11-07 Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13) Rademakers, Jany Nijman, Jessica van der Hoek, Lucas Heijmans, Monique Rijken, Mieke BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM) is a 13-item instrument which assesses patient (or consumer) self-reported knowledge, skills and confidence for self-management of one’s health or chronic condition. In this study the PAM was translated into a Dutch version; psychometric properties of the Dutch version were established and the instrument was validated in a panel of chronically ill patients. METHODS: The translation was done according to WHO guidelines. The PAM 13-Dutch was sent to 4178 members of the Dutch National Panel of people with Chronic illness or Disability (NPCD) in April 2010 (study A) and again to a sub sample of this group (N = 973) in June 2010 (study B). Internal consistency, test-retest reliability and cross-validation with the SBSQ-D (a measure for Health literacy) were computed. The Dutch results were compared to similar Danish and American data. RESULTS: The psychometric properties of the PAM 13-Dutch were generally good. The level of internal consistency is good (α = 0.88) and item-rest correlations are moderate to strong. The Dutch mean PAM score (61.3) is comparable to the American (61.9) and lower than the Danish (64.2). The test-retest reliability was moderate. The association with Health literacy was weak to moderate. CONCLUSIONS: The PAM-13 Dutch is a reliable instrument to measure patient activation. More research is needed into the validity of the Patient Activation Measure, especially with respect to a more comprehensive measure of Health literacy. BioMed Central 2012-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3490810/ /pubmed/22849664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-577 Text en Copyright ©2012 Rademakers et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Heijmans, Monique
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Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13)
title Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13)
title_full Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13)
title_fullStr Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13)
title_full_unstemmed Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13)
title_short Measuring patient activation in the Netherlands: translation and validation of the American short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM13)
title_sort measuring patient activation in the netherlands: translation and validation of the american short form patient activation measure (pam13)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22849664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-577
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