Staff:staff and staff:client reliability of the Schalock & Keith (1993) Quality of Life Questionnaire
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Vol. 42 (1) , 37-42
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2788.1998.00066.x
Abstract
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.Keywords
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