Introducing the Occupational Balance Questionnaire (OBQ)
Wagman, Petra and Håkansson, Carita LU
(2014)
In Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
21(3).
p.227-231
- Abstract
- Objective: The concept of occupational balance is frequently used in occupational therapy but the fact that it has been defined and measured differently is a limitation. This article introduces the Occupational Balance Questionnaire (OBQ), which focuses on satisfaction with the amount and variation of occupations. It consists of 13 items measured on six-step ordinal scales. It has shown good content validity in a sample of 21 occupational therapists but other psychometric properties have not been investigated. The aim was to investigate the OBQ regarding internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and floor/ceiling effects. Methods: The OBQ was administered twice to a sample selected through convenience sampling. Internal consistency... (More)
- Objective: The concept of occupational balance is frequently used in occupational therapy but the fact that it has been defined and measured differently is a limitation. This article introduces the Occupational Balance Questionnaire (OBQ), which focuses on satisfaction with the amount and variation of occupations. It consists of 13 items measured on six-step ordinal scales. It has shown good content validity in a sample of 21 occupational therapists but other psychometric properties have not been investigated. The aim was to investigate the OBQ regarding internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and floor/ceiling effects. Methods: The OBQ was administered twice to a sample selected through convenience sampling. Internal consistency was investigated by Cronbach's alpha and test-retest reliability analysed with Spearman's Rho correlation for the total score and weighted kappa on each item. Potential floor/ceiling effects were explored by checking for the percentage of participants who scored lowest and highest. Results: The results demonstrated that the OBQ has good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.936) and sufficient test-retest reliability (Spearman's Rho for the total score was 0.926) and, thus, seems stable over time. No floor or ceiling effect was detected. Conclusions: The OBQ therefore showed promising reliability, although further instrument development studies to examine its construct validity are required. (Less)
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- Wagman, Petra
and Håkansson, Carita
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- 2014
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- Contribution to journal
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- keywords
- validity, reliability, occupational therapy, instrument development
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- Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
- volume
- 21
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 227 - 231
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- wos:000334750000009
- scopus:84910066005
- pmid:24649971
- ISSN
- 1651-2014
- DOI
- 10.3109/11038128.2014.900571
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- English
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