Abstract
Treatment satisfaction has been found to have good therapeu- tic results in psychotherapy, and the 18-item version of the client satisfaction questionnaire (CSQ-18) is one of the most widely used measures to evaluate it. This study sought to carry out a pilot analysis of the psychometric’s properties and factorial structure, as well as validate the CSQ-18’s applicability to the Portuguese population within the context of routine clinical practice. It also sought to explore the association that treatment satisfaction has with general symptoms, therapeutic alliance, and expectations at an early stage of psychotherapy. The sample comprised 98 clients who were undergoing psychotherapy in a routine practice context. All these clients completed self-reported measures for symptom assessment and therapeutic relationship, namely the clinical out- come routine evaluation-outcome measure, working alliance in- ventory, and credibility/expectancy questionnaire, in addition to the CSQ-18. The semi-confirmatory factorial analysis demon- strated that the CSQ-18 has good psychometric properties and re- vealed an association between treatment satisfaction and therapeutic alliance. The results corroborate the findings of other versions of the measure and present a good adjustment model for the semi-confirmatory factorial analysis.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology
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