PROM Detail

Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy
  • Basic Information
  • Detailed Information
  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
JSPPPE
Full name
Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
5
Short description
A brief scale (5 item) for assessing patients perceptions of their physicians empathic engagement. Originates in the USA and concentrates on the domain of therapeutic relationships (PCCC behaviours and communication skills).
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.
Empathy
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)
Patients

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
2007
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
US
Original publication ?
The publication in which the measure was originally published.
Search Citations of Original Reference
Website link ?
A link to the developer of the measure, if they have a website.
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Generic
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Generic, but tested in hospital setting
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
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.
A brief scale for assessing physician empathy from the patients' perspective.
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.
0.666666667
Language
English

Domains

Domain description
Empathy
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
5
1
Behaviour and communication skills
Information sharing

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
436 patient rating forms were available for analysis. Of these, 225 (52%) had no missing data and were consequently used as the units of analyses in the psychometric analysis. In the factor analysis of the data, only one factor emerged with an eigenvalue greater than one (eigenvalue?=?3.7), suggesting that the Jefferson Scale of Patient