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Isabel Margot-Cattin1, Nicolas Kuhne2, Anders Kottorp3
1Isabel Margot-Cattin, MSc-OT, is Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Social Work and Health-Haute École de Travail Social et de la Santé (EESP), University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Lausanne, and PhD Candidate, Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society Institutionen för Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhålle (NVS), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; isabel.margot@eesp.ch.
Objective:
We describe the development of a questionnaire, Participation in Activities and Places Outside Home (ACT-OUT), for older adults with cognitive impairment and align it to people with mild- to moderate-stage dementia.
Method:
ACT-OUT was developed in a cross-cultural collaboration in combination with three rounds of cognitive interviews in Switzerland with 26 older adults without cognitive impairment and five older adults with dementia. Qualitative data from the interviews were analyzed using a constant comparison approach.
Results:
The final ACT-OUT Version 1.0 consists of three parts: (1) questions targeting places older adults visit; (2) questions on aspects influencing participation, such as transportation, familiarity, and risk perception; and (3) questions on perception of self.
Conclusion:
The development of an instrument such as ACT-OUT is more a cyclical than a linear process. This study is a first step toward a more systematic evaluation of out-of-home participation among older adults with and without dementia.
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