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The Measurement of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Status

A Review of the Needs and a New Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

James W. Affleck  and
Ralph J. McGuire
James W. Affleck
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh
Ralph J. McGuire*
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
*
∗Correspondence.
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Summary

The recognition of rehabilitation as a special interest in psychiatry, and its practice by professional teams, raises the need for some uniformity in examining patient outcome. The features required in a scale designed for this purpose are considered and the Morningside Rehabilitation Status Scales, which have been prepared specifically for psychiatric rehabilitation, have their development and use described. They measure the dimensions of dependency, inactivity in occupation and leisure, social integration/isolation, and current symptoms and deviant behaviour. The measures can be expressed as a profile of the dimensions, with the total a measure of overall level of functioning; reliability has been established, and validity assessed. The soales are not difficult to apply when the patients are known to the staff using them. They should be useful to rehabilitation teams for defining the current status of patients, measuring changes produced by rehabilitation programmes, deciding areas where treatment or service deficits may exist which the team should be attempting to remedy, as well as for teaching purposes.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 145 , Issue 5 , November 1984 , pp. 517 - 525
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Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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