Staff:staff and staff:client reliability of the Schalock & Keith (1993) Quality of Life Questionnaire.
A small-scale study of the inter-rater and staff:client reliability of the Schalock & Keith (1993) Quality of Life Questionnaire (QOL-Q) was conducted. Whilst the sample size was small and the QOL-Q achieved an acceptable overall level of reliability, the study replicated the pattern of low staff:client concordance and staff overestimation of the independence and autonomy of clients reported by Reiter & Bendov (1996). The results are briefly discussed in the context of the ongoing debate about the utility of proxy response in the literature.
Rapley
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M
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
Ridgway
J
J
Beyer
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D016352:Group Homes; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life