Interrater reliability and construct validity - An investigation of the IDA assessment

Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-13

  Dychawy Rosner, Irena ^a   Isacsson, Åke ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

construct validity; developmental disabilities; Interrater reliability; mental retardation; occupational therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860390211     PISSN: 11038128     EISSN: 16512014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/11038129609106676     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Weber R. A manual of terminology and classification in mental retardation. Am J Defic 1981;Suppl 64.
2. Grossman HJ, ed. Classification of mental retardation. Washington DC: American Association on Mental Deficiency, 1984.
3. The Swedish Institute. Disability policies in Sweden: fact sheets on Sweden. The Swedish Information Service. New York: NY 10017-2201, 1995.
4. Regeringens proposition 1992/93: 159. Stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade. (Framework for Public Law, 1992-93: 159. Support and service for persons with certain functional impairment act, 1992-93:159). Stockholm: Gotab, 1993
5. Grunewald K. Mentally retarded children and young people in Sweden. Integration into society: the progress in the last decade. Acta Paediatr Scand 1979; 68 Suppl 275:75-84.
6. Downing J, Perino DM. Functional versus standardised assessment procedures: implications for educational programming. Ment Ret 1992; 30 (5): 289-95.
7. Bailey DJ, Simeonsson RJ. Investigation of use of goal attainment scaling to evaluate individual progress of clients with severe and profound mental retardation. Ment Ret 1988; 26 (5): 289-95.
8. Zucker S, Pollaway E. Issues in identification and assessment in mental retardation. Educ Train Ment Ret; 1987; 22 (2): 69-76.
9. White O. The evaluation of severely mentally retarded populations. In: Bricker D, Filler I, editors. Severe mental retardation: from theory to practice. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children. 1985; 161-84.
10. Liljedahl K. Handicap environment: 100 years of pedagogical efforts aimed at life-long learning. (Dissertation) University of Lund: Pedagogical Department, 1993; 113-46.
11. Tjornov J. Ergoterapi-baggrund og udvikling. Koben-havn: FADL's Forlag, 1990; 20-1.
12. Humpry R, Jewell K. Developmental disabilitiesmental retardation. In: Willard and Spackman's occupational therapy. 8th ed. Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Company, 1993; 419-29.
13. American Occupational Association. Uniform terminology for occupational therapy, 2nd edn. Am J Occup Ther 1989;43:808-15.
14. Trombly C. Anticipating the future: assessment of occupational function. Am J Occup Ther 1993;47:253-7.
15. Gillette N. Research directions for occupational therapy. Am J Occup Ther 1991; 45: 563-5.
16. Hopkins HL. Current basis for theory and philosophy of occupational therapy. In: Willard and Spackman's occupational therapy. 8th ed. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1993; 58-91.
17. WHO. International classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps (ICIDH) a manual of classification relating to the consequences of disease. Geneva: World Health Organisation, 1980.
18. Nordenfelt L. On the notions of disability and handicap. Scand J Soc Welfare 1993; 17-24.
19. Verbrugge LM, Jette AM. The disablement process. Soc Sci Med 1994; 38 (1): 1-14.
20. Törnquist K. Verifying and measuring the ability to, perform activities of daily living-ADL. (Dissertation). University of Göteborg, Department of Social Work, 1995.
21. Dychawy-Rosner I. IDA : Irena daily activity model-a working model for day activity centres. Unpublished rapport. Lund; Vårdhögskolan Lund-Helsinborg: Påbyggnadslinjen i arbetsterapi, 1991.
22. Mosey, AC. Occupational therapy-configuration of a profession. New York: Raven Press, 1981.
23. Ferol ML, Ann Cronin Mosey. In: Miller, R et al., editors: Six perspectives on theory for the practice of occupational therapy. Aspen: Rockville 1988:41-64.
24. Dychawy-Rosner I. IDA model: Irena daily activity model a working model for day activity centres: patient assessment). [In Swedish.] Arbetsterapeuten 1993; 15: 26-9.
25. Dychawy-Rosner I, Isacsson A.̊ IDA: a working model for day activities centre-patient assessment. In: Vol 1, Congress Summaries, The 11th International Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists; Imperial College, London. London: West Square Associated Publisher 1994:183-5.
26. Howe T. Measurement scales in health care settings. Nurse Res; 1995; 2 (4): 30-7.
27. Gibbon B. Validity and reliability of assessment tools. Nurse Res, 1995; 2 (4): 48-5.
28. Streiner DL; Norman GR. Health measurement scales, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford Medical Publications, 1995.
29. Raven J, Raven JC, Court JH. General overview-1993 Edition. Oxford: Psychologists Press, 1993.
30. Sullivan M. Quality of life assessment medicine. Concepts, definitions, purposes and basic tools. Nord J Psychiatr 1992; 46 (2): 79-83.
31. Raven J et al. American and international normsneuropsychological uses. Oxford: Psychologists Press, 1990:Suppl 3.
32. Court HJ; Raven J. Normative, reliability and validity studies. Oxford: Psychologists Press, 1977.
33. Altman, DG. Practical statistics for medical research. London: Chapman and Hall, 1991.
34. Ottenbacher KJ, Tomchek SD. Reliability analysis in therapeutic research: practice and procedures. Am J Occup Ther 1993;47:10-6.
35. Law M. Measurement in occupational therapy: scientific criteria for evaluation. Can J Occup Ther 1987; 54 (3): 133-8.
36. Bartko JJ; Carpenter WT. On the methods and theory of reliability. J Nerv Ment Dis 1976; 161 (5): 307-17.
37. Armstrong GD. The intraclass correlation as a measure of interrater reliability of subjective judgements. Nurse Res 1981; 30 (5): 314-20.
38. Shrout PE, Fleiss JL. Intraclass correlations: uses in assessing interrater reliability. Psychol Bull 1979; 86 (2): 420-8.
39. Fleiss JL. Measuring nominal scale agreement among many raters. Psychol Bull 1971; 76 (5): 378-82.
40. Kylén G. Begåvning och begavningshandikapp. (Mental processing and mental disabilities) Stockholm: Stiftelsen ALA, 1981.
41. Polatajko HJ. Dreams dilemmas, and decisions for occupational therapy practice in a new millennium: a Canadian perspective. Am J Occup Ther 1994; 48: 590-4.
42. Pollock N. Client centered assessment. Am J Occup Ther 1993;47:298-301.
43. Powell NJ. Health policy-supporting consumer-mandated programming for persons with developmental disabilities. Am J Occup Ther 1992; 46: 559-62.
44. Cohen JA. A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educ Psychol Measur 1960; 20: 37-46.