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ArticleJournal of patient experience2025

Development of a Japanese Version of the Feeling Heard and Understood Scale: Reliability and Validity in Outpatients.

Miki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hirayama, Maho Aoyama, Mitsunori Miyashita

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Miki TakahashiDepartment of Palliative Nursing, Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3070-025X
Hideyuki HirayamaDepartment of Palliative Nursing, Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7914-5126
Maho AoyamaDepartment of Palliative Nursing, Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Mitsunori MiyashitaDepartment of Palliative Nursing, Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

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Abstract

The Feeling Heard and Understood (FHU) scale evaluates communication between patients and healthcare providers to measure patient-centered care from the patient's perspective. This study aimed to develop a Japanese version of the FHU (FHU-J). Three researchers translated the original scale, and cognitive interviews with 10 hospitalized patients ensured face validity. The survey items were back-translated and approved by the original authors. Two web-based surveys were conducted one week apart to assess the FHU-J's internal consistency, concurrent validity, and test-retest reliability that targeted adults hospitalized for over a week in the past year. The first and second surveys included 608 and 255 respondents, respectively (50.4% men; mean age: 57.0). Surgery was the primary reason for admission (48.1%). The Cronbach α for the FHU-J was .93, and the intraclass correlation coefficient between the 2 responses was 0.54. Cronbach α and correlation coefficients demonstrated sufficient validity of the FHU-J, whereas the intraclass correlation coefficient indicated moderate reliability.

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communicationheard and understoodpalliative carepatient-centered carequality indicatorsquality of care

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PMID40547401
PMCPMC12179446

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