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Development Of Abbreviated Measures To Assess Patient Trust In A Physician, A Health Insurer, And The Medical Profession, Elizabeth Dugan, Felicia Trachtenberg, Mark Hall
Development Of Abbreviated Measures To Assess Patient Trust In A Physician, A Health Insurer, And The Medical Profession, Elizabeth Dugan, Felicia Trachtenberg, Mark Hall
Elizabeth Dugan
BACKGROUND: Despite the recent proliferation in research on patient trust, it is seldom a primary outcome, and is often a peripheral area of interest. The length of our original scales to measure trust may limit their use because of the practical needs to minimize both respondent burden and research cost. The objective of this study was to develop three abbreviated scales to measure trust in: (1) a physician, (2) a health insurer, and (3) the medical profession. METHODS: Data from two samples were used. The first was a telephone survey of English-speaking adults in the United States (N = 1117) …