PROM Detail

Patient Approach and Views toward Healthcare Communication Scale
  • Basic Information
  • Detailed Information
  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
PAV-COM
Full name
Patient Approach and Views toward Healthcare Communication Scale
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
9
Short description
The PAV-COM measure is a valid tool for assessing patient approaches and views toward communication with physicians. This measure can be used to evaluate interventions to improve patient participation during healthcare encounters.
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.
Communication with doctors, activation
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”.
PROEM
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.
2012
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).
Primary care, hospital, aged adults
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 and older people
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
For assessing patient approaches and views toward communication with physicians and to evaluate interventions to improve patient participation during healthcare encounters.
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.
0.5
Language
English

Domains

Domain description
Patient approach and views toward healthcare communication
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
7
1
1
1
2
7
Empowerment/activation
Single point of contact
Continuity of care
Shared decision making
Behaviour and communication skills
Information sharing

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
Exploratory factor analysis of the 2002 data showed a 2-factor solution: