Participants' perspectives on the medical practitioner compassion competency questionnaire.

IF 1.4 Q2 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL

South African Family Practice Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI:10.4102/safp.v67i1.6141

Willem E Botha, Michelle Jäckel-Visser, Callie Theron

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Abstract

Background: The study qualitatively reviewed the Medical Practitioner Compassion Competency Questionnaire (MPCCQ). The revision aimed to extend the questionnaire and address the factor fission found within three subscales of the MPCCQ, namely, mindfulness, emotion recognition, and compassion action orientation.

Methods: A literature review was conducted to inform the development of additional items for the questionnaire. Thereafter, 14 subject matter experts (SMEs) were asked to assess the items in the mindfulness, emotion recognition, and compassion action orientation subscales. Experts provided feedback in an open-ended format, allowing them to freely express any concerns or comments about each item. In addition, they rated each item's clarity and validity on a scale from 1 (not clear or valid) to 3 (clear and valid). Lawshe's content validity ratios were calculated to assess the level of consensus among the SMEs and to quantify the need for revision.

Results: Eight items showed statistically significant disapproval from SMEs and were rewritten based on the qualitative feedback from the SMEs. In total, 30 items were amended according to SME suggestions along with previous qualitative data collected by Visser.

Conclusion: The revised questionnaire aims to more accurately and comprehensively capture compassion competency in medical practitioners on the sub-dimensions identified by the original author, ultimately supporting the ongoing development of compassion competency measurement in medical practitioners.Contribution: In addition, this study contributes to the body of knowledge on qualitative methods for constructing behavioural observation scales.

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被试对医师同情心胜任力问卷的看法。

背景：本研究对医师同情胜任力问卷（MPCCQ）进行定性分析。本次修订的目的是扩展问卷，并探讨在MPCCQ的正念、情绪识别和同情行动取向三个分量表中发现的因素裂变。方法：通过文献回顾，为问卷的附加项目的开发提供信息。随后，14名主题专家（sme）被要求评估正念、情绪识别和同情行动取向分量表中的项目。专家们以开放式形式提供反馈，允许他们自由表达对每个项目的任何关切或评论。此外，他们对每个项目的清晰度和有效性进行了评分，从1（不清楚或有效）到3（清楚有效）。计算Lawshe的内容效度比来评估中小企业之间的共识水平并量化修订的必要性。结果：中小企业不赞成的项目有8项具有统计学意义，并根据中小企业的定性反馈进行了改写。根据中小企业的建议，结合Visser之前收集的定性数据，共修改了30个项目。结论：修订后的问卷旨在更准确、更全面地捕捉到原作者确定的医疗从业人员同情胜任力子维度，最终支持医疗从业人员同情胜任力测量的持续发展。贡献：此外，本研究有助于构建行为观察量表的定性方法的知识体系。

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South African Family Practice MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL-

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1.50

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

25 weeks

期刊介绍： South African Family Practice (SAFP) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which strives to provide primary care physicians and researchers with a broad range of scholarly work in the disciplines of Family Medicine, Primary Health Care, Rural Medicine, District Health and other related fields. SAFP publishes original research, clinical reviews, and pertinent commentary that advance the knowledge base of these disciplines. The content of SAFP is designed to reflect and support further development of the broad basis of these disciplines through original research and critical review of evidence in important clinical areas; as well as to provide practitioners with continuing professional development material.