Satisfaction with Daily Occupations for Elderly People (SDO-E)—Adaptation and Psychometric Testing

Abstract

Satisfaction with everyday occupations has been shown to be important for health and well-being in various populations. Research into satisfaction with everyday occupations among elderly persons is, however, lacking. The aim was to investigate the psychometric properties of an adapted test version of the Satisfaction with Daily Occupations instrument (SDO) for elderly people, called SDO-E. Five hospital-based occupational therapists working with elderly people evaluated the content validity and usability of the SDO-E. The elderly participants consisted of 50 people from outside of the health services and 42 inpatients at an internal medicine clinic. They completed the SDO-E and rated their perceived health, activity level, and general satisfaction with daily occupations. The SDO-E showed fair content validity and utility, acceptable internal consistency, good preliminary construct validity and relevant known-groups validity. The SDO-E thus appears to be a useful screening tool for assessing activity level and satisfaction with daily occupations among elderly people, and a complement to other self-report instruments concerning factors connected with health and well-being. Future research should further explore the content validity of the SDO-E, particularly the views of the elderly themselves, and investigate the SDO-E in terms of sensitivity to change.

“Nomen Omen”: Exploring Connected Healthcare through the Perspective of Name Omen

“…Roles in connected health (CH) ecosystem (Source: [17] Edited by the author, 2020). Although CH covers various practices, it can be classified as two main platforms: selfmanagement (patient empowerment) and remote-care (remote connectivity) [72,73]. The former includes all the practices that enable patients to be empowered to manage their own health [74].…”

“…If they are not appropriate areas for CH, the validity and credibility of the results will be a concern. For example, remote areas are appropriate for CH research according to the literature; however, the results of pilot studies are not clearly represented by the samples in the trials [85,86,87].…”

“…In addition, a population with many prevalent chronic conditions is essential for practicing CH, as there is a stronger need for its services compared to a healthier population [93,94]. Moreover, one of the features of CH is to extend its service to a broader population in distant or remote areas [72,95]. Therefore, it is important that CH is proven to be feasible in remote areas.…”

“…Both US and EU markets are representable in their field, but they may not be typical of universal CH. It may require collaborations in knowledge management and knowledge transformation from different countries to identify a typical case study that can fulfil CH requirements and cover these differences between countries, as this would be more likely to be beneficial in offering solutions to CH issues [72]. A typical case study is the one that meets all the CH preconditions and essential requirements.…”

“Nomen Omen”: Exploring Connected Healthcare through the Perspective of Name Omen

“…Specifically, it is necessary to consider the collaboration of significant players from different disciplines in CH practices, such as software developers, hardware manufacturers, healthcare clinical and care service providers, support service providers, total solution companies, and end-users (patients or clinicians) (as shown in Table 1). Although CH covers various practices, it can be classified as two main platforms: self-management (patient empowerment) and remote-care (remote connectivity) [72,73]. The former includes all the practices that enable patients to be empowered to manage their own health [74].…”