title: Assessing treatment acceptance: the Abbreviated Acceptability Rating Profile.
abstract: As part of a broad focus on service accountability, increased attention has been devoted to the assessment of consumer judgments of treatment acceptability. Current treatment acceptability measures are limited by item complexity and time-intensiveness. These limitations were addressed with the modification of an existing instrument (Intervention Rating Profile; Witt & Elliott, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 13, 59-67, 1985). Psychometric support was found for the revised measure (Abbreviated Acceptability Rating Profile; AARP) in an initial sample of parents (N = 60) who rated child treatments. Results were replicated in a cross-validation study of a second independent sample of parents (N = 80). A third sample of subjects was used to assess the time-intensiveness and readability of the AARP. The usefulness of the modified instrument is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44109.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Tarnowski
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Simonian
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results