Development and psychometric properties of the Individualized Care Scale

Abstract

The ICS has demonstrated promise as a tool for measuring patients' evaluations of their hospital experience and individuality in care.

A survey of orthopaedic patients’ assessment of care using the Individualised Care Scale

“…In the study the English and Finnish-Swedish versions of the ICS-A and -B (Suhonen et al, 2004(Suhonen et al, , 2005a were culturally and semantically adapted by the first and last authors, AB, and EI, respectively. It was first translated into Swedish and then back-translated, by an authorized translator, into English (Maneesriwongul and Dixon, 2004).…”

“…Chronbach's alpha coefficients for the sub-scales in the ICS-A ranged from 0.88 to 0.89 and for the ICS-B from 0.83 to 0.89 (Suhonen et al, 2005a). All corrected item-to-total correlations were acceptable with the minimum preset criterion of 0.30 for all sub-scales.…”

“…All corrected item-to-total correlations were acceptable with the minimum preset criterion of 0.30 for all sub-scales. Content validity was established using a series of factor analyses (Suhonen et al, 2005a) and structural equation modelling (Suhonen et al, 2004). The present study used this instrument to describe orthopaedic patients' assessments about their care.…”

“…The Individualised Care Scale (ICS) (Suhonen et al, 2004(Suhonen et al, , 2005a is an instrument used to measure individualised care. It consists of a self administrated questionnaire divided into two sections, ICS-A and ICS-B.…”

Fundamental nursing care: A systematic review of the evidence on the effect of nursing care interventions for nutrition, elimination, mobility and hygiene

“…When nursing care is sub‐optimal, patients experience health care negatively (Rathert, Wyrwich, & Boren, 2013; Suhonen, Leino‐Kilpi, & Valimaki, 2005). Failure to assure the quality of nursing care leads not only to distress and dissatisfaction, but also to wider patient safety failures.…”