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Development of an applied cognition scale to measure rehabilitation outcomes
- Source :
- Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 85(12)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Coster WJ, Haley SM, Ludlow LH, Andres PL, Ni PS. Development of an applied cognition scale to measure rehabilitation outcomes. Objective To examine the structure and content coverage of an item pool of new items based on the Activity categories from the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and items from existing instruments to measure the applied cognition dimension of function. Design Prospective study. Setting Four postacute care rehabilitation settings (inpatient, transitional care, home care, outpatient) in an urban-suburban area of northeast United States. Participants Convenience sample of 477 patients (mean age, 62.7y) receiving rehabilitation services for neurologic, orthopedic, or complex medical conditions. Interventions Not applicable. Main outcome measures Participants were administered applied cognition items from the new Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care, the Medical Outcomes Study 8-Item Short-Form Health Survey, and an additional setting-specific measure: the FIM instrument (inpatient rehabilitation); the Minimum Data Set (skilled nursing facility); the Minimum Data Set–Post Acute Care (postacute settings); or the Outcome Assessment and Information Set (home care). Rasch (partial-credit model) analyses were conducted to examine item fit, item coverage, scale unidimensionality, and category difficulty estimates. Results The majority of items (46/59) could be located along a single continuum. Relatively few people were performing at the lower end of the difficulty scale, and about 25% were at ceiling. Conclusions The proposed definition of applied cognition dimension provides a useful guide for item development to measure this dimension. Further work is needed to determine how best to measure function in this domain for people at the upper and lower ends of the continuum.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Cognition
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Acute care
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
medicine
Health Status Indicators
Humans
Transitional care
Disabled Persons
Prospective Studies
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Minimum Data Set
Rasch model
Rehabilitation
business.industry
Middle Aged
Massachusetts
Scale (social sciences)
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Physical therapy
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00039993
- Volume :
- 85
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....969901f902a2ab49fe7a7effaede8c3c