Development of a questionnaire to assess communication preferences of patients with chronic illness
Patient Education and CounselingPublished 15 March 2010
Erik Farin‐Glattacker, Lukas Gramm, Desiree Kosiol
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The KOPRA questionnaire has good psychometric properties and clinical use of the questionnaire appears useful to determine patients' communication preferences, particularly with respect to nursing staff and therapists.
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clinical use of the questionnaire appears useful to determine patients' communication preferences.
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