Measuring perceived meaningfulness in day centres for persons with mental illness
Nilsson, Ingeborg ; Argentzell, Elisabeth LU ; Sandlund, Mikael ; Leufstadius, Christel LU
and Eklund, Mona
LU
(2011)
In Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
18(4).
p.312-320
- Abstract
- Rationale: As support in leading a meaningful and active life, a person with mental illness is often given the opportunity to attend a day centre. However, few studies have investigated the meaningfulness perceived by the person visiting a day centre. For such a purpose, a self-report instrument was developed. Aims: To explore whether perceived meaningfulness, as expressed in the recently developed instrument Evaluation of Perceived Meaning in Day Centers (EPM-DC), could be viewed as one dimension and also to investigate the psychometric properties of this instrument. Methods: Persons with mental illness attending five day centres in Sweden participated and completed the questionnaire. The data were analysed by Rasch analysis. Major... (More)
- Rationale: As support in leading a meaningful and active life, a person with mental illness is often given the opportunity to attend a day centre. However, few studies have investigated the meaningfulness perceived by the person visiting a day centre. For such a purpose, a self-report instrument was developed. Aims: To explore whether perceived meaningfulness, as expressed in the recently developed instrument Evaluation of Perceived Meaning in Day Centers (EPM-DC), could be viewed as one dimension and also to investigate the psychometric properties of this instrument. Methods: Persons with mental illness attending five day centres in Sweden participated and completed the questionnaire. The data were analysed by Rasch analysis. Major findings: The study showed that the concept captured in the instrument could be viewed as unidimensional and the result gave preliminary evidence for sound psychometric properties. Principal conclusion: The results indicate promising signs of validity and reliability, but the suitability of self-reporting may be questioned. (Less)
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- Nilsson, Ingeborg
; Argentzell, Elisabeth
LU
; Sandlund, Mikael
; Leufstadius, Christel
LU
and Eklund, Mona
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2011
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- publication status
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- subject
- keywords
- community psychiatry, instrument development, Rasch analysis
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- Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 312 - 320
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- wos:000296886300007
- scopus:80955139774
- pmid:20961265
- ISSN
- 1651-2014
- DOI
- 10.3109/11038128.2010.522592
- language
- English
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- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Occupational Therapy (Closed 2012) (013025000)
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