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ArticleAustralian occupational therapy journal2014

Development and validation of the activity significance personal evaluation (ASPEn) scale.

Trudy Mallinson, Stacey L Schepens Niemiec, Mike Carlson, Natalie Leland, Cheryl Vigen, Jeanine Blanchard, Florence Clark

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Article in Australian occupational therapy journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Trudy MallinsonDepartment of Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University; The Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California.
Stacey L Schepens Niemiec
Mike Carlson
Natalie Leland
Cheryl Vigen
Jeanine Blanchard
Florence Clark
University of Southern California · US

Funding

Rehabilitation Research Career Development ProgramK12HD055929 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI BROWN, DAVID A · 2007 to 2021
$11.7M
Health Mediating Effects of the Well Elderly ProgramR01AG021108 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CLARK, FLORENCE A. · 2004 to 2007
$2.2M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG021108NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD055929
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

aimEngagement in desired occupations can promote health and wellbeing in older adults. Assessments of engagement often measure frequency, amount or importance of specific activities. This study aimed to develop a scale to measure older adults' evaluation of the extent to which their everyday activities are contributing to their health and wellness.

methodsEighteen items, each scored with a seven-point rating scale, were initially developed by content experts, covering perceptions of how daily activities contribute to physical and mental health, as well as satisfaction and activity participation in the last six months. Rasch analysis methods were used to refine the scale using the pencil and paper responses of 460 community-living older adults.

resultsInitial Rasch analysis indicated three unlabelled rating scale categories were seldom used, reducing measurement precision. Five items were conceptually different by misfit statistics and principal component analysis. Subsequently, those items were removed and the number of rating scale steps reduced to 4. The remaining 13-item, 4-step scale, termed the Activity Significance Personal Evaluation (ASPEn), formed a unidimensional hierarchy with good fit statistics and targeting. Person separation reliability (2.7) and internal consistency (.91) indicated the tool is appropriate for individual person measurement. Relative validity indicated equivalence between Rasch measures and total raw scores.

conclusionsASPEn is a brief, easily administered assessment of older adults' perception of the contribution of everyday activities to personal health and wellness. ASPEn may facilitate occupational therapy practice by enabling clinicians to assess change in meaning of an older adult's activity over time.

Indexed as

Quality of LifeSelf-AssessmentActivities of Daily LivingAgedData Interpretation, StatisticalFemaleHumansIndependent LivingLos AngelesMaleMiddle AgedOccupational TherapyPsychometricsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicReproducibility of Resultsageddaily living activityoutcome assessmentpersonal satisfactionquality of life

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