Measuring healthcare professionals’ perceptions of their ability to adopt shared decision making: Translation and psychometric evaluation of the Danish version of the IcanSDM questionnaire

• DOI: 10.1186/s12911-024-02747-1
• Publication Date: 2024-11-15T07:16:32Z
• Authors: Jeanette Finderup; Hilary L. Bekker; Nadia Thielke Albèr; Susanne Boel; Louise Engelbrech...; Helle Sørensen vo...; Anne Wilhøft Kris...; Kristian Damgaard...; Tina Wang Vedelø; Gitte Susanne Ras...; Pernille Christia...; Stine Rauff Sønde...; Anik Giguère
• Keywords: Danish; Health Professionals; Knowledge Translation

Shared decision making in healthcare is a fundamental right for patients. Healthcare professionals' perception of their own abilities to enable shared crucial implementing within service. IcanSDM (I can making) brief measure investigate approaches practices. It was developed Canada with French and English versions, recently translated into German. This study aims adapt the Danish-speaking professionals, evaluate its psychometric properties. Cultural adaptation translation based on Beaton et al.'s approach applied. A forward by ten people backward two were performed. To assess comprehensibility, cognitive interviews conducted 24 professionals. Eighty professionals who trained either one hour (n = 65) or day 15) participated evaluation. The evaluation concerned acceptance, item characteristics, skewness, difficulties, corrected item-total correlations, inter-item factorial structure, internal consistency, responsiveness. revealed few discrepancies, participants understood items well. showed high completion rate acceptable difficulties discrimination values. Both factor analysis consistency 2-factor structure: 1) capacity implement making; 2) practise making. IcanSDM_Danish obtained Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.74. responsiveness improvement, but not statistically significant. has good cross-cultural validity structure. capable providing reliable valid measurement when evaluating constructed knowledge about making, may be able support implementation training impact.