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Validity and Reliability of an Equity in Health Care Scale

Author(s) -

Alexandrina Lobo,

Sónia Mateus

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244013506716

Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , equity (law) , likert scale , scale (ratio) , health equity , health care , population health , psychology , socioeconomic status , population , applied psychology , medicine , psychometrics , nursing , clinical psychology , environmental health , geography , public health , cartography , economic growth , developmental psychology , political science , economics , law

The objective of this article was to describe and validatepsychometric properties of a Likert-type scale to assess the perception of equity inhealth care, characterize equity in health care of users in the district of Vila Real,and analyze the factors that determine equity in health care in the district of VilaReal. The study was developed in a district of the northern interior of Portugal, with6,113 participants. We resorted to Cronbach’s alpha and also Pearson’s correlation tovalidate the scale. The Cronbach’s alpha of the scale is adequate, showing a goodinternal consistency, and the most appointed factors as being influential on equity areage, geographical distance, and socioeconomic resources. The proposed scale was found toperform well, measuring these participants’ perception on the equity to access in healthcare, which can contribute to identify the key determinants appointed by the populationas generators of inequity, leading to the implementation of measures

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