Midwives’ empathy and shared decision making from women’s perspective - sensitivity of an assessment to compare quality of care in prenatal and obstetric care

Table 6 Estimation of response shift parameters for the CARE-8-M scale (N = 150)

	*Factor loadings*				*Intercepts*				*Error variance*				Overall^a
Item	FL	S.E.	∆x^2b	p	IN	S.E.	∆x^2b	p	VAR(e)	S.E.	∆x^2b	p	∆x^2b	p
CARE-M-1	0.460	.033	1.399	.237	1.210	.043	1.011	.315	.152 .101 \| .175	.014 .013 \| .022	9.638	.002	13.672	.003
CARE-M-2	0.560 0.488 \| 0.551	.040 .037 \| .046	7.937	.005	1.330 1.244 \| 1.433	.054 .046 \| .067	11.907	≤.001	.214 .083 \| .324	.020 .011 \| .040	43.864	≤.001	63.435	≤ .001
CARE-M-3	0.531	.038	2.352	.125	1.337	.051	0.154	.695	.141	.013	1.188	.276	3.747	.290
CARE-M-4	0.566 0.539 \| 0.571	.039 .035 \| .048	14.464	≤.001	1.319 1.260 \| 1.442	.053 .047 \| .071	12.853	≤.001	.154 .036 \| .268	.016 .008 \| .037	73.908	≤.001	85.661	≤ .001
CARE-M-5	0.536	.039	0.800	.371	1.366	.052	0.330	.565	.181	.016	2.303	.129	3.930	.269
CARE-M-6	0.512 0.611 \| 0.485	.035 .042 \| .036	27.667	≤.001	1.270 1.300 \| 1.244	.047 .055 \| .051	7.479	.006	.072	.009	0.035	.851	33.966	≤ .001
CARE-M-7	0.463	.034	0.991	.319	1.244	.047	3.053	.081	.182	.016	0.669	.413	5.051	.168
CARE-M-8	0.472	.038	2.536	.111	1.338	.053	0.098	.754	.280	.024	0.271	.603	3.229	.358

FL factor loading, IN intercept, e error variance, S.E. standard error, df degrees of freedom; ∆x²= on release of parameter; Critical Ratio (C.R.) for all items ≥ 9.0
^a = FL, IN and e are freely estimated for each item simultaneously; In case of RS (p ≤ .05), a second, italicized row was generated with estimated parameters (1st value: pregnancy, 2nd value: birth); ^b df_diff for all model comparisons = 1

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