Psychometric Properties
This psychometric property was lacking when different students scored a standardized assessment differently for the same client, resulting in varied interpretations.
Inter-rater reliability
In the COAST goal "Mary will complete grooming while sitting edge of bed with minimal assistance in 3 weeks," this is the specific condition (S).
What is "while sitting at edge of bed"?
When Mary, the OT, asks about the client’s home environment, education, work, and leisure activities, she is likely conducting this step of the OT process.
What is making an occupational profile?
When a client difficulty with community mobility and the OT helps explore alternatives to ensure the client doesn't miss work, this therapeutic mode from the IRM is used.
What is problem solving?
Name 5 occupations from the OTPF
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When Steve's scale showed wildly inconsistent readings over a week, it was lacking this psychometric property.
What is reliability?
These codes are used to describe medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures and services.
What are CPT codes?
The role of the OTA in the evaluation process includes this task as delegated by the OT.
What is completing standardized assessments or occupational profile?
Providing the client with hope and courage is an example of this mode.
What is encouraging?
Name 5 performance skills from the OTPF
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If an assessment measures what it claims to measure, it has this important psychometric property.
What is validity?
This element is missing from the goal "Client will be able to don socks within 1 week."
What is assist level?
When critiquing a nonstandardized assessment, the OT should ask if it is guided by these.
What are theoretical frameworks and/or models of practice?
When a client expresses dislike for adaptive equipment due to its bulkiness and difficulty, and you observe and try to find a solution, this is an example of this mode.
What is problem-solving?
Name 5 client factors from the OTPF
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This feature of standardized assessments accounts for the variability in clients' abilities to perform tasks on different days.
These codes are used to classify diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures for billing and statistical purposes.
What are ICD codes?
OT problem statements should be based on this.
What are client-centered goals and identified occupational performance issues?
In the scenario where a client TKA exhibits anger and refuses to continue the interview, this type of interpersonal characteristic is being demonstrated.
What are situational interpersonal characteristics?
A FOR that looks at volition
What is the MOHO?
This type of validity refers to whether the test items appear, on the surface, to measure what they are supposed to measure.
What is face validity?
For a client with Medicare B receiving 30 minutes of ADL training from an OT, this many units can be billed.
What is 2 units?
Upon completion of the initial interview and chart review, the next step in the OT process is?
What is conduct assessments?
Name 3 interpersonal characteristics
what are....
•Communication Style
•Tone of voice
•Body Language
•Facial Expression
•Response to change
•Level of trust
•Need for control
•Abiltiy to take feedback
•Want to relate/ Reciprocity
•Preference for touch
Roles is part of this in the OTPF
What is a performance pattern?