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Cheryl A Cott1, Gary Teare, Katherine S McGilton
1Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. cheryl.cott@utoronto.ca
Disability and Rehabilitation
|October 31, 2006
Summary
A new client-centered rehabilitation questionnaire (CCRQ) demonstrates strong reliability and validity. This tool helps assess rehabilitation services from the client
Area of Science:
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Health Services Research
- Psychometrics
Background:
- Client perspective is crucial for evaluating rehabilitation services.
- Existing measures may not fully capture client-centered care.
- Development of a reliable and valid client-centered measure is needed.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate a publicly available measure of client-centered rehabilitation (CCRQ).
- To create a tool suitable for both discriminative and evaluative purposes in rehabilitation settings.
Main Methods:
- Mixed-methods approach combining qualitative and quantitative techniques.
- Literature review, focus groups, and expert review to identify seven domains.
- Item generation, cognitive interviews, and psychometric testing (reliability, validity) with 1,568 patients.
Main Results:
- The seven subscales of the CCRQ exhibit strong internal reliability (0.72–0.87).
- Excellent test-retest reliability was observed (0.74–0.85).
- Discriminative construct validity was confirmed by identifying significant program differences.
Conclusions:
- The CCRQ is a reliable and valid measure for assessing client-centered rehabilitation.
- The CCRQ supports its use in clinical practice, quality improvement initiatives, and research.
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