Abstract
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021.
Highlights
Introduction/Background: The Long-Term Conditions Questionnaire (LTCQ) was developed as a person-centred tool for measuring the cumulative impact of long-term health conditions (LTCs) and health-related services
An LTCQ score could be calculated for 99% of the sample, with 85% fully completing the measure
Carers (n=102) had a mean age of 68 years and were 64% female, with 56% reporting a long-term health condition. For both measures, missing data levels were low (0% to 5% per item), internal consistency was high (Cronbach’s α=0.92 and α=0.95 for LTCQ and LTCQ-Carer, respectively), and all items correlated with a single general construct
Summary
Introduction/Background: The Long-Term Conditions Questionnaire (LTCQ) was developed as a person-centred tool for measuring the cumulative impact of long-term health conditions (LTCs) and health-related services. Its 20 items were developed through in-depth patient interviews to generate content (Peters et al 2016) and item refinement with lay and professional stakeholders (Kelly et al 2016). A larger-scale study among primary care and social care recipients in England demonstrated the LTCQ’s measurement reliability and validity of its broad construct, ‘living well with LTCs’ (Potter et al 2017)
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