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Staff:staff and staff:client reliability of the Schalock & Keith (1993) Quality of Life Questionnaire
Author(s) -
Rapley M.,
Ridgway J.,
Beyer S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2788.1998.00066.x
Subject(s) - concordance , reliability (semiconductor) , autonomy , proxy (statistics) , psychology , context (archaeology) , quality of life (healthcare) , inter rater reliability , scale (ratio) , applied psychology , nursing , medicine , rating scale , developmental psychology , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law , biology
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.