PerCen Acute - Person-Centered Care in the acute inpatient setting

Testing and further development of instruments for the empirical measurement and theoretical development of person-centered care

Background: Person-centred care is described as a global movement that aims to (re)humanize the practice of healthcare by focusing on the “person behind the patient”. To theoretically support quality development in healthcare according to a person-centered philosophy, McCormack and McCance (2017) developed the Person-Centred Practice Framework (PCP Framework). The framework comprises various levels and dimensions and focuses on the culture in practice and on the relationships between all persons involved. The Person-Centred Practice Inventories (PCPI-S and PCPI-SU) are standardized instruments for staff and patients that are explicitly designed to measure the constructs of the PCP framework.
Recent psychometric studies show that these instruments have sufficient quality criteria. The relationships conceptualized in the PCP framework on which the PCPI-S is based were also tested using structural equation models. This revealed the need to continue the theoretical examination of the constructs and dimensions of the PCP framework at the level of the development of the measurement instruments.

Aim: The aim is to continue the testing of the PCP framework by psychometrically testing the German versions of the Person-Centred Practice Inventories, with a special focus on response behavior and tendencies, structural validity and reliability of the instruments. Building on this, short scales will be developed and a contribution made to the further theoretical development of the PCP framework. In addition, the intention is to generate an initial database on person-centered care in the context of acute inpatient care in Austrian hospitals.