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Psychiatric, Family, and Ethnicity-Related Factors That Can Impact Treatment Utilization Among Hispanic Substance Abusing Adolescents
Published in Mario R. De La Rosa, Lori K. Holleran, Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner, Substance Abusing Latinos, 2012
Daniel A. Santisteban, Frank Dillon, Maite P. Mena, Yannine Estrada, Ellen L. Vaughan
Attachment. The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987) was developed to assess adolescent perception of the positive and negative aspects of their attachment to their parents. In this study we focused only on adolescent reports of adolescent-mother attachment. The IPPA is a self-report measure of three dimensions: degree of mutual trust, quality of communication, and the extent of anger and alienation. Internal consistency, measured by Cronbach’s alpha, was .87 for the mother version and .89 for the father version. Alphas for the current sample ranged from .75 to .88. The IPPA was shown to have a correlation coefficient of .78 with family self-concept as assessed by the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale and .52 with family expressiveness on the Family Environment Scale (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987). The IPPA was administered as a self-report to the adolescents.
Measuring the Assistive Technology MATCH
Published in Stefano Federici, Marcia J. Scherer, Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook, 2017
Fabrizio Corradi, Marcia J. Scherer, Alessandra Lo Presti
Furthermore, the ICF components are well integrated in combination with some assessment instruments, such as the ICF checklist mentioned earlier. It is compatible with the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM; Law, Baptiste, McColl, Polatajko, and Pollock, 2005), the Individually Prioritized Problem Assessment (IPPA; Wessels et al., 2002) and the Goal Attainment Scale (Karlsson, 2010). The ICF checklist is a practical tool to elicit and record information on the functioning and disability of an individual: it elicits what capabilities and limitations the users experience in activities and participation related domains. It has a list of mental functions, sensory function and pain, voice and speech functions, respiratory system, etc. The checklist assists the service provider to know if more specific function assessment will be required. The COPM was developed for capturing the client's individual occupational performance, it is not AT specific, but looks at the needs of the AT user from a client-centered perspective. Applied with other instrument it has been found to be a useful tool for the ATA process (Bernd et al., 2009; see Chapter 2). The GAS was introduced for evaluating mental health services; currently, it is used in pediatrics, rehabilitation, and mental health. It measures the change in response to individual goal-setting. The IPPA is a generic instrument to measure the effectiveness of any assistive technology provision. In sum, the COPM, GAS, and IPPA are sensitive to measure change; a combination of these instruments, along with the ICF checklist, offers service providers additional evidence-based solutions for outcome measure in assistive technology, as an alternative or complement to the MPT (Karlsson, 2010).
Impact of pain, fatigue and dyspnoea on occupational performance in people with advanced cancer: A longitudinal study
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020
Marc Sampedro Pilegaard, Karen la Cour, Åse Brandt, Mario Lozano-Lozano, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard
The IPPA is a structured, interview-based instrument that is used to identify the participants’ prioritised occupations and to assess their subjective experience when performing these occupations [23]. Up to seven occupations are prioritised by the participant, and both the importance and difficulty of these occupations are scored on a five-point ordinal scale from 1 to 5, where 1 = not important at all and 5 = most important; and 1 = no difficulty at all and 5 = too much difficulty to perform the occupation at all. If the participants experience not to have prioritised problems with their occupations, they will not rate the importance and difficulty scores of the IPPA [23]. The importance scores and the difficulty scores of each occupation are multiplied and added together. The scores are then divided by the total number of identified occupations, resulting in a total IPPA score ranging from 1 to 25. A higher score indicates the participant’s average experienced difficulty performing a prioritised occupation. The psychometric properties of the IPPA in terms of construct validity and test-retest reliability have been found to be satisfactory in elderly people [28,29]. Furthermore, the IPPA has been translated into Danish, and we used the Danish version in the present study [23].
Occupational performance and prioritized problematic everyday occupations among people with advanced cancer living alone versus living with someone
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2023
Melanie Blichfeldt, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard, Marc Sampedro Pilegaard, Karen la Cour, Line Lindahl-Jacobsen
Sociodemographic data were collected by the occupational therapists performing baseline assessment using a study-specific questionnaire. For the present cross-sectional study, the following variables have been chosen according to the research questions: living status, age, gender, primary cancer type, employment status, type of residence, WHO PS, and the baseline data from the Danish version of the Individually Prioritised Problem Assessment (IPPA), which assess self-perceived occupational performance [21,22]. The IPPA is a structured interview-based instrument, which is able to identify problems in everyday life that the participants would like to get solved [22,23]. The participants were asked to identify up to seven problems that they experienced in everyday life in their home environment. To facilitate the process of problem identification, the IPPA activity checklist could be used. This checklist consists of an overview of everyday occupations divided into categories. Then the participant rated the difficulty and importance of each occupation separately. The level of difficulty in performing the occupation in everyday life was scored on a five-point Likert scale from ‘1 = no difficulty at all’ to ‘5 = too much difficulty to perform the occupation at all’. The importance of this problem was rated from ‘1 = not important at all’ to ‘5 = most important’ [22]. The IPPA has been tested in various studies and proven to be a useful instrument that have proven to be feasible to use in clinical practice, and with an acceptable responsiveness and validity [24,25]. The Danish version was officially translated and tested in 2013 and a good reliability was shown [26,27,28].
Subgroup effects of occupational therapy-based intervention for people with advanced cancer
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020
Marc Sampedro Pilegaard, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard, Karen la Cour, Anna Thit Johnsen, Åse Brandt
Age and gender were registered using a study-specific questionnaire. Hospital nurses at two hospitals collected information about the participants’ primary tumor from the responsible oncologist and rated the participants’ WHO PS. Activity problems were assessed by the data-collection occupational therapists who used the Individually Prioritised Problems Assessment (IPPA) instrument. The IPPA is a self-report interview-based instrument where a person prioritizes up to seven activity problems to be solved [24–26]. Information on educational level was collected using the study-specific questionnaire. All six variables were collected either before or at T1.