Reliability of the positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS) in medical rehabilitation.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the reliability of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) in patients 90 and 100 days after discharge from inpatient medical rehabilitation.


METHODS
A prospective study.


METHODS
A convenience sample of 31 medical rehabilitation patients.


METHODS
The PANAS.


RESULTS
The average age was 74 years, 80.7% were female and the average length of stay was 13 days. The test-retest intraclass correlation (ICC) values for the positive and negative affect scales (at the 90 and 100 day follow-up assessment) were 0.79 and 0.93, respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
Our results show that the PANAS has excellent reliability among a sample of patients who received inpatient medical rehabilitation.
Ostir
Glenn V
GV
Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-0460, USA. gostir@utmb.edu
Smith
Pamela M
PM
Smith
David
D
Ottenbacher
Kenneth J
KJ
D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results