Psychometric assessment of the Slovene translation of the Measure of Processes of Care for Service Providers

The Measure of Processes of Care for professionals (MPOC-SP) is valid and reliable a self-administered questionnaire for paediatric service providers engaged in care for chronically ill children. Our aim was to evaluate internal consistency reliability, one-year stability and some aspects of validity of its Slovene translation. Sixty-seven service providers from seven professional groups of several hospitals and health centres participated in the study. MPOC-SP mean scores for all four subscales were high; their ranking order was the same as in other MPOC-SP studies. All subscales exhibited sufficient internal consistency (Cronbach alpha from 0.69 to 0.86, adequate corrected item-total correlations). None of the mean subscale scores changed significantly after one year (P values from 0.11 to 0.80). The Slovene translation of the MPOC-SP can therefore be considered a reliable instrument that shows good stability over a period of one year, and as such it can be adopted in clinical practice.