Content Refinement and Multicenter Validation of the ELIGES Patient Experience Questionnaire Focused on Nursing Care During Hospitalization: Study Protocol
Study protocol outlines psychometric validation of the ELIGES questionnaire in hospitalized patients, highlighting standardized assessment of inpatient nursing care.
Key Points
Refine the ELIGES-Patient Experience questionnaire by integrating patient perspectives and evaluate its psychometric properties for assessing inpatient nursing care.
Conduct a three-phase mixed-methods study beginning with patient focus groups to revise questionnaire dimensions, followed by a national Delphi consensus process.
Perform multicenter psychometric validation across six Spanish public hospitals, including a pilot evaluation of temporal stability and agreement.
Administer the consensus questionnaire to 2,271 hospitalized patients to evaluate structural validity and reliability.
Protocol establishes a standardized, patient-informed instrument to measure hospitalized patient experience with nursing care.
Target psychometric outcomes include validated content validity from expert consensus and confirmed temporal stability from multicenter field testing in 2,271 participants.
Cite This Study
Navamuel-Castillo et al. (2026) studied this question.