Brief Report: Development and Initial Testing of a Questionnaire Version of the Environmental Rating Scale (ERS) for Assessment of Residential Programs for Individuals with Autism
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Summary, in English
There is a lack of validated autism-specific outcome measures for large-scale evaluation of the effectiveness of psycho-educational programmes. To fill this gap the Environment Rating Scale (ERS) was adapted from an interview version to a staff-completed questionnaire version (ERS-Q). The ERS-Q was tested regarding data quality, validity, reliability and ease of understanding amongst 18 residential staff members. The ERS-Q and ERS showed comparable reliability (alpha = 0.89 and 0.93, respectively) and their correlation was 0.73. These observations support that the ERS interview can be adapted into a questionnaire without substantial loss of conceptual meaning. However, further evaluations in larger samples are needed to more firmly evaluate the measurement properties.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1178-1183
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volym
38
Issue
6
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Nursing
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0162-3257