Abstract
The Progression of Autonomies Scale (PAS) is a behavioral scale useful to assess the autonomy levels in acquired brain-injured patients. It provides a broad profile, assessing different domains of human activities ranging from personal, domestic, and extradomestic autonomies. This cross-sectional study is aimed at evaluating the reliability of this scale on a large cohort of acquired brain injury (ABI) patients. Fifty-one ABI patients (49% traumatic, 33.3% hemorrhagic, 17.7% other etiologies), hospitalized in the S. Anna Institute of Crotone, Italy (mean age male 46.08 ± 14.53 and mean age female patients 43.2 ± 11.3) were recruited. We found a high level of reliability of the scale, with a coefficient at the inter-rater agreement between substantial (0.61 ≤ k ≤ 0.8) and almost perfect (0.81 ≤ k ≤ 1), and almost perfect at the test-retest (intra-rater). We confirm that the PAS is a well-structured tool for the assessment of the autonomy levels in brain-injured patients. These findings encourage the application of this scale in the clinical practice of rehabilitation unit to design a tailored rehabilitation treatment on real goals and to monitor the generalization of the recovered abilities to the daily routine activities.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 342 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Neurology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | APR |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 1 2019 |
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Keywords
- Acquired brain injury
- Autonomies scale
- Inter-rater agreement
- Intra-rater agreement
- Reliability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology
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The reliability of the progression of autonomies scale applied on acquired brain injured patients. / Arcuri, Francesco; Cortese, Maria Daniela; Riganello, Francesco; Lucca, Lucia Francesca; Serra, Sebastiano; Mazzucchi, Anna; Cerasa, Antonio; Tonin, Paolo.
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T1 - The reliability of the progression of autonomies scale applied on acquired brain injured patients
AU - Arcuri, Francesco
AU - Cortese, Maria Daniela
AU - Riganello, Francesco
AU - Lucca, Lucia Francesca
AU - Serra, Sebastiano
AU - Mazzucchi, Anna
AU - Cerasa, Antonio
AU - Tonin, Paolo
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The Progression of Autonomies Scale (PAS) is a behavioral scale useful to assess the autonomy levels in acquired brain-injured patients. It provides a broad profile, assessing different domains of human activities ranging from personal, domestic, and extradomestic autonomies. This cross-sectional study is aimed at evaluating the reliability of this scale on a large cohort of acquired brain injury (ABI) patients. Fifty-one ABI patients (49% traumatic, 33.3% hemorrhagic, 17.7% other etiologies), hospitalized in the S. Anna Institute of Crotone, Italy (mean age male 46.08 ± 14.53 and mean age female patients 43.2 ± 11.3) were recruited. We found a high level of reliability of the scale, with a coefficient at the inter-rater agreement between substantial (0.61 ≤ k ≤ 0.8) and almost perfect (0.81 ≤ k ≤ 1), and almost perfect at the test-retest (intra-rater). We confirm that the PAS is a well-structured tool for the assessment of the autonomy levels in brain-injured patients. These findings encourage the application of this scale in the clinical practice of rehabilitation unit to design a tailored rehabilitation treatment on real goals and to monitor the generalization of the recovered abilities to the daily routine activities.
AB - The Progression of Autonomies Scale (PAS) is a behavioral scale useful to assess the autonomy levels in acquired brain-injured patients. It provides a broad profile, assessing different domains of human activities ranging from personal, domestic, and extradomestic autonomies. This cross-sectional study is aimed at evaluating the reliability of this scale on a large cohort of acquired brain injury (ABI) patients. Fifty-one ABI patients (49% traumatic, 33.3% hemorrhagic, 17.7% other etiologies), hospitalized in the S. Anna Institute of Crotone, Italy (mean age male 46.08 ± 14.53 and mean age female patients 43.2 ± 11.3) were recruited. We found a high level of reliability of the scale, with a coefficient at the inter-rater agreement between substantial (0.61 ≤ k ≤ 0.8) and almost perfect (0.81 ≤ k ≤ 1), and almost perfect at the test-retest (intra-rater). We confirm that the PAS is a well-structured tool for the assessment of the autonomy levels in brain-injured patients. These findings encourage the application of this scale in the clinical practice of rehabilitation unit to design a tailored rehabilitation treatment on real goals and to monitor the generalization of the recovered abilities to the daily routine activities.
KW - Acquired brain injury
KW - Autonomies scale
KW - Inter-rater agreement
KW - Intra-rater agreement
KW - Reliability
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