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Content validity of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ) for persons with spinal cord injury: A mixed methods study

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Roels, Ellen H.
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Schneider, Charlotte C.I.
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Reneman, Michiel Felix
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Post, Marcel W.M.
Spinal Cord
Journal · Vol. 60 · Issue 4 · pp. 354-360
Abstract

Study design: Mixed methods. Objectives: The aim of our study was to investigate the content validity of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ) for use in persons with post-acute and chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). Setting: A university-based Rehabilitation Center in The Netherlands. Methods: Contents of the WORQ, brief ICF core sets for SCI for post-acute care and for chronic situation were compared with semi-guided interviews with persons with SCI and controlled for relevance by SCI rehabilitation professionals in two group meetings. Results: Fourteen interviews with persons with SCI were performed. Two group meetings with 8 and 9 SCI rehabilitation professionals were held. Thirty seven of the 46 ICF categories (80%) of the WORQ were confirmed by both sources: mentioned in interviews with persons with SCI and considered important by the SCI professionals. The remaining 9 categories (20%) were confirmed by either the persons with SCI or the SCI professionals. Fourteen ICF categories that are part of the brief ICF core set for SCI for acute care and/or chronic situation, however are not part of the WORQ, have revealed importance by persons with SCI and SCI professionals. Conclusion: Our study confirms that most categories of the WORQ are important to consider for VR in persons with SCI, however, there are ICF categories that are absent in the WORQ and deemed relevant for use in VR in persons with SCI. Consequently, the content validity of the WORQ without additional items is insufficient for persons with SCI. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to International Spinal Cord Society.

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Employment Skill adult female human male questionnaire Humans Surveys and Questionnaires apprenticeship Article care behavior interpersonal communication Vocational education controlled study Study design health practitioner health service disability disabled person middle aged self report physiological stress intelligence clinical article emotion semi structured interview cognition memory thinking Energy anxiety vocational rehabilitation nurse personality tertiary education depression physiotherapist emergency care Netherlands rehabilitation care psychologist social worker content validity occupational therapist labor temperament vocational guidance attention conversation Disabled Persons Rehabilitation, Vocational International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health sleep reading drive acute disease arm biomechanics body position chronic disease defecation drinking eating exercise tolerance hand hearing irritability joint function micturition muscle function muscle strength muscle tone rehabilitation center respiratory function respiratory system sadness sensation sexual function skin social security spinal cord spinal cord injury subacute care toileting traffic and transport urinary tract vestibular function walking Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire Disability Evaluation Spinal Cord Injuries
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Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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