Validation of the CONNECT Survey Co-Designed with Parents to Strengthen Parent/Caregiver-Clinician Relationships in Pediatric Primary Care

The results revealed that the CONNECT Survey has high internal consistency (alpha = .993), indicating that the 13 items capture a shared construct. This was true across all racial and ethnic subgroups, insurance types, and ages, suggesting the scale performs consistently across these groups. Test-retest reliability from participants completing the survey immediately following a well-child visit and again five to seven days later was high (95.15 percent agreement on average), though findings should be interpreted with caution given the presence of ceiling effects and limited variability in responses. Tests of validity revealed good, though sometimes modest, concurrent and convergent validity. Measurement invariance analyses revealed that White caregivers reported more positive experiences than other racial/ethnic groups, those with private insurance reported more positive experiences than those with public insurance, and caregivers of toddlers gave the most positive ratings, while those with preschool-aged children reported lower scores.