. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 21.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2009 Feb 23;76(2):272–278. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.01.007

Table 2.

10 Items^* comprising a preliminary Positive Provider Attitudes toward Sickle Cell Patients Scale (PASS), from a cohort study of provider attitudes toward patients with sickle cell disease and acute vaso-occlusive crisis (n = 121 surveys).

	% of surveys	% of surveys	% of surveys	% of surveys	% of surveys	Mean	S.D.	Corrected item–total correlations 10-item/7-item
Not every patient is regarded the same. Compared to the average patient…	Much less than average	Less than average	Average	More than average	Much more than average
1. How much do you like this patient?^a (liking means warmth and enthusiasm for seeing)	3.3%	9.1%	43.0%	34.7%	9.9%	3.39	0.91	0.73/0.70
2. How much empathy do you have for this patient?	1.7%	10.7%	37.2%	40.5%	9.9%	3.46	0.88	0.59/0.59
3. How much respect do you have for this patient?^b	2.5%	10.7%	46.3%	24.8%	15.7%	3.40	0.96	0.75/0.74
Thinking about this patient, please indicate whether you tend to agree or disagree with the following statement.	Strongly agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Strongly disagree
4. This patient was frustrating to take care of.	4.1%	13.2%	11.6%	39.7%	31.4%	3.81	1.14	0.60/NA^c
5. This patient is one of those people who makes me feel glad I went into medicine.	5.8%	24.0%	42.2%	17.4%	10.7%	2.97	1.04	0.60/NA^c
6. This patient is the kind of person I could see myself being friends with^d.	5.0%	12.4%	33.9%	31.4%	17.4%	2.56	1.07	0.54/NA^c
In your opinion, how likely is this patient to…	Not at all likely	A little likely	Some-what likely	Very likely	Extremely likely
7. … over-report (exaggerate) discomfort?^d	33.9%	15.7%	20.7%	19.0%	10.7%	3.43	1.40	0.79/0.80
8. … fail to comply with medical advice?^d	24.0%	26.5%	20.7%	15.7%	13.2%	3.32	1.35	0.74/0.74
9. … abuse drugs, including alcohol?^d	33.1%	31.4%	16.5%	9.1%	9.9%	3.69	1.29	0.66/0.67
10. … try to manipulate you or other providers?^d	34.7%	16.5%	19.8%	14.1%	14.9%	3.42	1.46	0.80/0.81

All items are scored on a five-point Likert scale. Items 1–4 are scored from 1 to 5, and items 5–10 are reverse scored.

Ref. [5].

Ref. [9].

NA = not applicable. These items were not included in the 7-item scale.

Ref. [26].