Intellectual and physical interventions were most studied, with varied results. Future research is needed using more-consistent methods to measure cognition. Researchers should include the National Institutes of Health Toolbox Cognition Battery among measurement tools to facilitate effective data harmonization, pooling, and comparison.
A quality of lifeassessment tool to beused in occupational therapy is described, and initial psychometric data are presented.
AbstractThe "Qual-Ol?' is an assessment tool that was developed to help define quality of life for the field of occupational therapy. The questiennaire was given to practicing occupational therapists (n = 194), people with spinal cord injuries (n = 78), and people with multiple sclerosis (n = 133). The information derived was used to test the premise that quality of life can be described uniformly, and that it is a construct about which therapists and clients have the samegeneral idea. Factor analyses of the original questions yielded seven distinct factors. Singlefactor ANOVAs revealed that there were differences among the diagnostic groups on thesefactors. These differences showedthat,for the most part, practicing occupational therapists obtained higher scores on the sevenfactors than the other two groups. Regula H. Robnett, MS. ors, received her MS degree in occupational therapy from the Colorado State University and is currently an occupational therapist at Sundance Rehabilitation in Portland, Maine.
The Safe at Home Screening (SAH) is an occupational therapy assessment tool designed to quickly assess home safety awareness and skills through the use of mock hazardous situations in a kitchen setting. The SAH has been standardized on community-dwelling adults. This research project involves psychometric analyses using the SAH on a sample of adults with acquired brain injuries (ABI; N = 31), and compares their SAH outcome scores with those of the Kohlman Evaluation of Living Skills (KELS). The scores on the two tests were found to be moderately correlated. An aspect of content validity was explored by asking the clients' occupational therapists to make predictions about their clients' functioning in the realm of home safety. Correlations between the expert opinions of potential client scores and actual SAH test scores were moderate.
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