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. 2005 Oct;40(5 Pt 1):1553–1569. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00425.x

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics, Internal Consistency Reliability, and Item Discrimination of Clinicians' Orientation toward Integrative Medicine Scale and Subscales

Scale/Domain No. of Items Mean Score* Median Score* SD Skewness of Scale % Scoring Minimum % Scoring Maximum Internal Consistency Item Discrimination§
Awareness and openness to working with practitioners from other paradigms 10 69 72 20 −0.72 1 2 0.90 0.94
Readiness to refer patients to other paradigms 7 64 67 18 −0.13 1 2 0.74 0.75
Learning from alternate paradigms 5 43 40 20 0.21 3 1 0.78 0.95
Patient-centered care 3 73 75 17 −0.56 1 11 0.71 1.0
Safety of integrative medicine 5 74 80 19 −0.98 1 4 0.76 0.80
Clinicians' orientation toward Integrative Medicine Scale (IM-30) 30 64 66 14 −0.66 1 1 0.90
*

Possible range 0–100, with higher scores indicative of greater orientation toward integrative medicine.

Unbounded.

Cronbach's coefficient α.

§

Mean percentage of times that items in the scale correlated at least two standard errors higher with its hypothesized scale compared with other scales, correcting for overlap.