Translation and validation of the Chinese version of medical maximizer-minimizer scale: a cross-sectional study

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 11; no. 1; p. e042432
• Main Authors: Lai, Fenghua, Pei, Ling, Yue, Shufan, Cao, Xiaopei, Xiao, Haipeng, Li, Yanbing, Li, Jin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 06.01.2021; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Original research
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Bilingualism; Cancer therapies; China; Communication; Cross-Sectional Studies; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Gender; Health care; Health Informatics; Health services utilization; Humans; Interpreters; Investigations; Middle Aged; Patient satisfaction; primary care; Principal components analysis; Prostate; Psychometrics; quality in health care; Reproducibility of Results; Social research; Surveys and Questionnaires; Translations; Young Adult; China; primary care; health informatics; quality in health care

ObjectiveMedical overutilisation and underutilisation affect optimal healthcare. The Medical Maximizer-Minimizer Scale (MMS) was developed to assess individual medical maximising and minimising tendencies. Despite significant improvement in the healthcare system over the past four decades, no psycho...