Development of an Activity Card Sort for Australian adults aged 18–64 years

Abstract

This study has resulted in the development of a preliminary version of an ACS for adults aged 18-64 years. Further work is required to determine the psychometric properties of the tool.

Test–Retest Reliability and Internal Consistency of the Activity Card Sort–Australia (18-64)

“…The majority of the existing ACS versions, including the Australian version (ACS-Aus) are restricted for use with older adults above 65 years. A recent version of the ACS, the ACS-Aus (18-64), was developed in response to the need for a version applicable to Australian adults aged 18 to 64 years (Gustafsson et al, 2014).…”

Barriers and enablers to aligning rehabilitation goals to patient life roles following acquired brain injury

“…Three clinicians reported that the Activity Card Sort (Gustafsson et al ., ) was a tool used across the rehabilitation process that facilitated life role discussions, along with exploration of future activity interests given some changes in time use and role resumption.…”

“…Previous studies have explored application of various tools to facilitate the goal‐setting and role identification process (Doig et al ., ; Hallett et al ., ; Jongbloed et al ., ; Phipps & Richardson, ). In the current study clinicians reported that use of structured tools such as the Activity Card Sort (Gustafsson et al ., ) served as an enabler in facilitating life role discussions and aligning goals accordingly. In contrast with other information gathering tools that rely on patients’ abilities to generate ideas around goal areas from set role categories, this tool is unique in its provision of 85 photos of activity options that represent aspects of a broad range of roles.…”

Spanish Transcultural Adaptation of the Activity Card Sort

“…Regarding the number of items that coincide with other versions, it is worth noting that the final ACS-SP version includes 61 activities listed in the 2 nd edition of the ACS. In the case of ACS-Aus, both versions include 65 similar activities while, in the case of the version for adults between 18 and 64 years, 72 activities coincide [36]. Both the ACS-UK and our version present 66 similar activities, sharing 63 items with the A-ACS, 59 items with the ACS-NL, and 57 activities with the ACS-Israeli version.…”

“…On the other hand, the final version of the scale does not include activities, such as going to a religious center or reading religious material, both of which were included in the other available versions [17, 18, 20–23, 36]. Similarly, within the items listed on this scale, we did not consider leisure activities, such as doing handicrafts, sewing, doing puzzles, or collecting, neither social activities, such as volunteering, which do appear in the original ACS version, the second ACS edition, the ACS-Israel version, ACS-Aus, ACS-UK, or ACS-NL [6, 17, 18, 21, 22, 28].…”