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Data associated with 'Development of the Consumer Attitudes Towards Healthcare Scale

Research Objective

Patients are consumers: they engage in the purchase of healthcare products and services. To enable further exploration of the drivers of healthcare utilization, we developed a scale for measuring consumeristic attitudes about healthcare.

Study Design:

After an extensive literature review and cognitive interviewing, we surveyed a nationally representative US population with a 45 item questionnaire that used 5-point Likert responses to assess consumeristic attitudes. We generated a polychoric correlation matrix and did exploratory factor analysis using a principal components solution. We calculated the Cronbach’s alpha for the resultant scale and subscales, the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy, and the correlation between the emergent factors after oblique rotation. We sent the resulting scale to additional respondents twice for repeatability testing, and then surveyed a new nationally representative population with this consumeristic attitudes scale plus 2 additional existent scales for testing of concordance and discordance. All analyses were done using STATA 15.0.

Population Studied:

The national survey was conducted by AmeriSpeak (NORC, Chicago, IL) The 259 survey respondents were weighted to reflect the nation: the weighted populations was 48% male, 21% were under age 30 years, 29% were over age 60 years and 63% were non-Hispanic White. Eight respondents were dropped for incomplete responses.

Source of Data:

Johns Hopkins Data Services:
https://archive.data.jhu.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7281/T1/YOFR1E