Sanders Mechelle, Winters Paul, Fiscella Kevin
Department of Family Medicine Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1381 South Ave, Rochester, NY, 14620, USA.
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, USA.
BMC Res Notes. 2015 Aug 29;8:388. doi: 10.1186/s13104-015-1341-3.
A central premise in deployment of community health workers (CHW) is that CHWs share key characteristics with their patients. We sought to develop a scale to measure this construct called the Perceived Navigator Similarity (PNS) questionnaire.
We adopted items from a similarly developed scale, patient perceived similarity to their physicians, and examined its psychometric properties among 51 patients who were navigated for cancer care by a CHW.
Principal component analysis revealed two main factors: personal and ethnic. The scale was associated with greater satisfaction with navigation (p < 0.005) and cancer care (p < 0.05).
The PNS shows promise for further validation in larger samples assessing navigator-patient similarity from the patient perspective.
部署社区卫生工作者（CHW）的一个核心前提是，社区卫生工作者与他们的患者具有关键特征。我们试图开发一种量表来衡量这一结构，称为感知导航员相似性（PNS）问卷。
我们采用了一个类似开发的量表中的项目，即患者对其医生的感知相似性，并在51名由社区卫生工作者进行癌症护理导航的患者中检查了其心理测量特性。
主成分分析揭示了两个主要因素：个人因素和种族因素。该量表与更高的导航满意度（p < 0.005）和癌症护理满意度（p < 0.05）相关。
PNS在从患者角度评估导航员与患者相似性的更大样本中显示出进一步验证的前景。
