Is QUOTE-IBD a valid questionnaire for measurement of quality of care in IBD? A validation study of the Swedish version

Figures & data

Table 1. Demographic data.

Health-related data %	UC n = 124	CD n = 110	p Value
Female/male	56.2/42.7	53.6/46.3	.74
Smoker, yes/no	8.3/90.3	13.7/86.3	.73
Relapse last 6 months	23.3	20	.85
Relapse last 6–12 months	34.2	23.6
No relapses last 12 months	42.5	56.3
Age, mean/SD	50.2/18.4	49.1/16.0	–
Occupation %			.19
Employed	55.8	57.0
Student	9.2	5.6
Unemployed	5.0	1.9
Long-term sick-leave	0.8	4.7
Retired	25.0	22.4
Other	4.2	8.4
Highest finished education %			.98
Primary school	21.7	20.6
High school	40.0	40.2
University	38.3	39.3
Medical
Other chronic disease, yes/no %	30.0	29.1	.88
Disease duration mean years/SD	12.6/12.9	20.9/18.4	.001

UC: ulcerative colitis; CD: Crohn’s disease; SD: standard deviation.

Table 2. Total score as well as dimensional scores of QUOTE-IBD and VAS-scales for quality impact and performance scores.

Care dimension	Quality impact score	Performance
Total care	0.42**	0.45**
Information	0.40**	0.42**
Courtesy	0.43**	0.43**
Competence	0.16*	0.25**
Accessibility	0.36**	0.49**
Continuity of care	0.38**	0.41**
Accommodation	–0.02	–0.02

Spearman’s correlation coefficients.

* p ≤ .05.

** p ≤ .01.

Table 3. Test–retest (n = 32) mean values for quality impact (IQ) and performance.

Dimension	QI Baseline mean	QI Follow-up mean	QI Spearman’s r	Performance Baseline mean	Performance follow-up mean	Performance Spearman’s r
Total care	8.5	8.7	0.57	0.9	0.8	0.77**
Information	7.8	8.0	0.80**	0.76	0.79	0.93**
Courtesy	8.4	8.9	0.73**	0.80	0.89	0.62**
Competence	8.3	8.3	0.54**	0.78	0.84	0.59**
Accessibility	8.0	8.7	0.51*	0.73	0.83	0.79**
Continuity of care	8.7	8.2	0.54*	0.84	0.86	0.47*
Accommodation	9.1	9.4	–0.15	0.87	0.96	–0.11
Autonomy	9.3	8.8	0.31	0.93	0.93	0.56**
Cost	8.9	9.3	0.80**	0.89	0.93	0.80**

* p < .05.

** p ≤ .01.

Table 4. Mean values for all dimensions.

Care dimension	I	P	QI
Total care	7.41	0.16	8.84
Information	8.12	0.29	7.56
Courtesy	7.79	0.18	8.61
Competence	7.67	0.21	8.48
Accessibility	7.01	0.22	8.38
Continuity of care	7.26	0.24	8.28
Accommodation	7.17	0.04	9.73
Autonomy	7.97	0.09	9.34
Costs	6.39	0.05	9.71

I: importance ranging from 0 (least important) to 10 (very important); P: performance ranging from 0 (best performance) to 1 (poor performance).