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Table 3 Cronbach’s alphas for item sets on quality subscales and the related comprehensive scale

From: A mixed-methods study of quality differences between applied documentation approaches in nursing homes

Scale

Number of items

Documentation approach

All approaches

Structural model

Non-structural model

Cronbach’s alpha

Sample size

Scale mean (SD)

Sample size

Scale mean (SD)

Sample size

Scale mean (SD)

Structure

4

.78

N = 249

3.80 (0.79)

N = 174

3.84 (0.77)

N = 75

3.71 (0.83)

Process

5

.88

N = 245

3.45 (0.87)

N = 172

3.49 (0.84)

N = 73

3.35 (0.94)

Outcome

3

.81

N = 247

2.79 (0.91)

N = 172

2.92 (0.91)

N = 75

2.48 (0.85)

Cross-dimension

12

.90

N = 242

3.34 (0.73)

N = 169

3.41 (0.72)

N = 73

3.12 (0.73)

  1. Abbreviations: SD Standard deviation, N Total number of cases