Using goal attainment scaling to evaluate a needs-led exercise programme for people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities.
The aim of this study was to evaluate whether involvement in a 16 week exercise programme improved goal attainment in areas of behaviour, access to community-based experiences, health and physical competence. Participants were women with severe intellectual disability and associated challenging behaviour (setting A,N = 14) and male/female service users with profound physical and intellectual disabilities (setting B,N = 8). The exercise programme included active and passive exercise, walking, swimming, hydrotherapy, team games and rebound therapy. Significant gains in aggregated goal attainment were demonstrated by week 16. The reliability and validity of our goal attainment procedures were demonstrated with inter-rater reliabilities exceeding 80 percent. Changes in goal attainment were concurrent with global clinical impression scores in a series of single case studies. Continuing care settings should dedicate care staff to provide routinized, continuing exercise programmes.
Jones
Martyn C
MC
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. m.c.jones@dundee.ac.uk
Walley
Robert M
RM
Leech
Amanda
A
Paterson
Marion
M
Common
Stephanie
S
Metcalf
Charlotte
C
D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006113:United Kingdom