Development and Validation of Online Textual Pediatrician-Parent Communication Instrument Based on the SEGUE Framework

Table 1

Dimensions and items of the OPPC instrument and the incidence of OPPC items.

Dimensions	OPPC items	Category	Incidence rate (%) or mean
Set the stage	1. Parent’s explanation of initiation of symptoms or disease	①	36
	2. Parent’s explanation of symptoms or disease duration	①	36
	3. Parent’s explanation of disease progression	①	39
Elicit information	4. Pediatrician asks parent how health problems affect the child’s life	②	21
	5. Discuss how health problems affect the child’s life	③	29
	6. Pediatrician asks about physical/physiological factors	②	31
	7. Discuss physical/physiological factors	③	41
	8. Pediatrician asks about how the child’s lifestyle affects health problems	②	22
	9. Discuss the child’s lifestyle relevant to health problems with parent	③	32
Give information	10. Pediatrician educates parents about the child’s health according to physical examination results	②	57
	11. Parent gives information about physical examination results	①	56
	12. Pediatrician gives information about the child’s health status	②	68
Understand the patient’s perspective	13. Parent acknowledges pediatrician’s effort	①	71
	14. Frequencies of social talks (pediatrician)	②	2.18
	15. Frequencies of social talks (parent)	①	1.91
The overall incidence rate of parent-dominated and cooperative items			46.9
The overall incidence rate of pediatrician-dominated items			39.6

  ① parent-dominated item, ② pediatrician-dominated item, and ③ cooperative item.
Calculated by the number of “YES” of the item/490.
Calculated by the sum of the frequencies of social talks/490.
Calculated by the sum of the numbers of “YES” of parent-dominated and cooperative items/ (the number of parent-dominated and cooperative items 490).
Calculated by the sum of the numbers of “YES” of pediatrician-dominated items/ (the number of pediatrician-dominated items 490).