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Cross-cultural adaptation of the medical engagement scale into Danish general practice setting

Introduction: The need to involve doctors in healthcare leadership has long been recognized by clinical staff and policymakers. A Medical Engagement Scale has been designed in England to evaluate levels of medical engagement in leadership and management. Objective: The aim of this study was to trans...

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Autores principales: Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Peder, Riisgaard, Helle, Søndergaard, Jens, Nexøe, Jørgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2019.1608042
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author Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Peder
Riisgaard, Helle
Søndergaard, Jens
Nexøe, Jørgen
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Riisgaard, Helle
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description Introduction: The need to involve doctors in healthcare leadership has long been recognized by clinical staff and policymakers. A Medical Engagement Scale has been designed in England to evaluate levels of medical engagement in leadership and management. Objective: The aim of this study was to translate and adapt the scale and to test the translated version for comprehension and suitability in Danish general practice setting. Design and method: The process involved forward translation, backward translation, and field tests. The field tests included cognitive debriefing interviews. In all 30 general practitioners and 5 non-general practitioners participated in the process of translation. After using the scale among 1652 general practitioners statistical analysis was carried out to test internal consistency. Setting: The study was carried out in general practice in Denmark. Results: Several changes made during the process in order to achieve a Danish version that is acceptable, understandable and still capable of measuring medical engagement comparable of the original English version. Analysis of scale internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha revealed acceptable reliability for all three meta-scales, which ranged from 0.69 to 0.81. The overall tool achieved a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.89. Conclusion: KEY POINTS: This study describes the cross-cultural adaptation of the Medical Engagement Scale from a UK primary healthcare setting to a Danish primary healthcare setting. The process produced a relevant and acceptable questionnaire measuring medical engagement. Internal consistency revealed acceptable reliability. The translation of the scale provides the possibility to use this scale for practical and academic purposes.
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spelling pubmed-65667962019-06-21 Cross-cultural adaptation of the medical engagement scale into Danish general practice setting Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Peder Riisgaard, Helle Søndergaard, Jens Nexøe, Jørgen Scand J Prim Health Care Research Article Introduction: The need to involve doctors in healthcare leadership has long been recognized by clinical staff and policymakers. A Medical Engagement Scale has been designed in England to evaluate levels of medical engagement in leadership and management. Objective: The aim of this study was to translate and adapt the scale and to test the translated version for comprehension and suitability in Danish general practice setting. Design and method: The process involved forward translation, backward translation, and field tests. The field tests included cognitive debriefing interviews. In all 30 general practitioners and 5 non-general practitioners participated in the process of translation. After using the scale among 1652 general practitioners statistical analysis was carried out to test internal consistency. Setting: The study was carried out in general practice in Denmark. Results: Several changes made during the process in order to achieve a Danish version that is acceptable, understandable and still capable of measuring medical engagement comparable of the original English version. Analysis of scale internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha revealed acceptable reliability for all three meta-scales, which ranged from 0.69 to 0.81. The overall tool achieved a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.89. Conclusion: KEY POINTS: This study describes the cross-cultural adaptation of the Medical Engagement Scale from a UK primary healthcare setting to a Danish primary healthcare setting. The process produced a relevant and acceptable questionnaire measuring medical engagement. Internal consistency revealed acceptable reliability. The translation of the scale provides the possibility to use this scale for practical and academic purposes. Taylor & Francis 2019-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6566796/ /pubmed/31057019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2019.1608042 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2019.1608042
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