Parent experiences questionnaire for outpatient child and adolescent mental health services (PEQ-CAMHS Outpatients): reliability and validity following a national survey

Table 3 Correlations between questionnaire scores and responses to individual questions

Variable	Relationship with health personnel	Information and participation	Outcome
Overall satisfaction^a:
Treatment for child	0.62	0.49	0.37
How parent was treated	0.64	0.47	0.28
Overall outcome^b:
For child	0.58	0.55	0.62
For parent	0.71	0.65	0.52
Cooperation^c:
Among health professionals at the clinic	0.73	0.65	0.40
Between the clinic and others involved with the child	0.62	0.56	0.30
Parent involvement:
Parent understanding of treatment from the clinic^d	0.51	0.56	0.33
Parent involvement in dialogue with the clinic^e	0.26	0.24	0.09
Talked down to by personnel^c:
Child	0.25	0.15	0.11
Parent	0.41	0.25	0.15
Time and availability:
Waiting time^f	0.26	0.20	0.17
Acceptable number of hours with clinic^g	0.45	0.35	0.26
Number of clinic visits in the last three months^h	0.18	0.04	0.03
Contact with health professionals out of appointment time^c	0.50	0.42	0.26
Information - side effects of medication^c	0.47	0.60	0.37

All correlations are significant (p < 0.01).
^a Five-point scale: "very dissatisfied" to "very satisfied".
^b Five-point scale: "no benefit" to "a very large benefit".
^c Five-point scale: "Not at all" to "to a very large extent".
^d Five-point scale: "very poor" to "very good".
^eThree-point scale: "never", "yes now and again", "yes often".
^fFour-point scale: "no", "yes but not for long", "yes fairly long", "yes very long".
^gThree-point scale: "very few hours", "too few hours", "enough hours".
^hFour-point scale: "only once", "2-5 times", "6-12 times", "more than 12 times".

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