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Family Perception of Care Scale
  • Basic Information
  • Detailed Information
  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
FPCS
Full name
Family Perception of Care Scale
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
25
Short description
A tool developed exclusively for long-term care facilities, measuring resident care, family support, communication, and rooming. It was deemed as having excellent content validity, covering all essential domains of palliative care, is simple to administer and scored well in systematic review of psychometric properties - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20817748
PCCC or QoL? ?
This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Person Centred Coordinated Care
Main Domains Measured ?
This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
End of life, palliative care, resident care, family support, communication, and rooming
Type of measure ?
The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
PREM
Respondent ?
The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Carers

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
2004
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
Canada
Original publication ?
The publication in which the measure was originally published.
Search Citations of Original Reference
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15690832
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
End of Life Care
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Long-term care facilities.
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
Canada, US
Target age ?
e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Adults
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
End of Life care
Used in UK? ?
Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
No
Impact ?
A crude indication of the impact of the measure on academia. This is the number of times the original publication has been cited on PubMed, divided/normalised to the years since publication.
1
Language
English

Domains

Domain description
It consists of four subscales: resident care, family support, communication, and rooming.

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
It was deemed as having excellent content validity, covering all essential domains of palliative care, is simple to administer and scored well in systematic review of psychometric properties - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20817748 A review of end-of-life care in dementia deemed it as one of the top two tools valid and reliable for measuring quality of care in this population - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21814875