Table 2 Characteristics of respondents in the content validity testing
Characteristics respondents | Step I CVI* and individual think-aloud | Step II CVI and focus group | Step III CVI mailed | Step IV CVI and individual think-aloud | Step V CVI and focus groups | Step VI CVI and focus group | Step VII CVI and think-aloud | Sum mean (range) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Participants | 5 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 73 |
Female/male | 4/1 | 8/3 | 11/5 | 10/4 | 9/3 | 3/2 | 5/0 | 50/18 |
Age (years) | 53 | 48 | - | 54 | 45 | 53 | 45 | 49 (37–68) |
Experience of MCD | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
Profession | ||||||||
Nurse | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 22 |
Head/administrator | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | |
Ethicists/facilitators | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 15 | |||
Physician | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||
Physiotherapist | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Chaplain | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||||
Nurses assistant | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||||
Social scientist | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||
Social worker | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Other | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Specialty | ||||||||
Medicine | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | |||
Surgery | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||||
Psychiatry | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Neurology | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
Home nursing care | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | ||||
Paediatrics | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
Geriatrics/Pall med** | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||
Habilitation | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||||
Ethics support service | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | ||||
Other | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 14 | ||
Country | ||||||||
Sweden | 5 | 11 | 14 | 30 | ||||
Netherlands | 7 | 12 | 19 | |||||
Great Britain*** | 9 | 9 | ||||||
France | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Norway | 10 | 10 |