Cross-cultural adaptation of the Four Habits Coding Scheme into Danish: a study of inter- and intra-rater reliability in face-to-face and video consultations
Christian Emil Brinck, Ulrik Bak Kirk, Henrik Schou Pedersen, Maria Louise Køpfli, Linda Huibers, Morten Bondo Christensen, Alexandre Bellier, Edward Krupat, Anette Fischer Pedersen · 2026
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A good consultation is a clinical skill, and Denmark now has a ruler for measuring it. Christian Emil Brinck and co-authors translated the Four Habits Coding Scheme, a 23-item scoring system for doctor-patient communication, into Danish with forward-backward translation and small cultural adjustments. Ten general practitioners recorded 150 consultations, about half face-to-face and half by video. Three trained doctor raters scored the recordings, some of them twice.
Raters agreed well with each other and with themselves over time, in both settings, with reliability coefficients around 0.7 to 0.75 for total scores. The authors offer the Danish scheme as a trustworthy tool for training and research, while suggesting sharper rater calibration to firm up the weakest items.
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| CREATOR | Christian Emil Brinck, Ulrik Bak Kirk, Henrik Schou Pedersen, Maria Louise Køpfli, Linda Huibers, Morten Bondo Christensen, Alexandre Bellier, Edward Krupat, Anette Fischer Pedersen |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |