Reliability and Validity of The Turkish Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Treatment Satisfaction - General Questionnaire

In the evaluation of the services provided in hospitals in recent years, importance has been given to the measurements based on the perception of the patients. Today, the most frequently used criteria for this purpose are quality of life and patient satisfaction. The general opinion of the experts is that the information obtained with these criteria is valid and reliable.The researchers pointed out that patients who are dissatisfied with the health service provided comply with the recommendations of the healthcare personnel less and thus the primary and secondary preventive services are adversely affected.Although treatment satisfaction is a very important factor in terms of patient adherence to treatment, there is no valid and reliable scale in Turkish to evaluate this factor. This study was carried out to investigate the validity and reliability of The Turkish version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Treatment Satisfaction - General Questionnaire in the patients receiving health care.