Document Type
Psychometric instrument
Health Care System Distrust Scale
Year:
Year
2004
Rose and colleagues developed a 10-item scale to measure distrust of the United States healthcare system (defined as hospitals, health insurance companies, and medical research) for use in the investigation of its prevalence, causes, and effects.
Research Population:
Research Population
Adults
Citation:
Citation Title
Rose, A., Peters, N., Shea, J. A., & Armstrong, K. (2004). Development and testing of the health care system distrust scale. Journal of general internal medicine, 19(1), 57-63.
Citation Link
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1494688/
Validation(s)
Validation Text
Rose, A., Peters, N., Shea, J. A., & Armstrong, K. (2004). Development and testing of the health care system distrust scale. Journal of general internal medicine, 19(1), 57-63.
Shea, J. A., Micco, E., Dean, L. T., McMurphy, S., Schwartz, J. S., & Armstrong, K. (2008). Development of a revised Health Care System Distrust scale. J Gen Intern Med., 23(6), 727–732.