MSc (Occupational Therapy), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand / As there are no occupation based outcome measures evaluating the effect of
occupational therapy in the pre-school child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) an
Occupational Performance Questionnaire (OPQ) was developed to address this.
The OPQ was tested for content validity and reliability before a 12 month intervention
study to establish construct validity and response to change in children with ASD
receiving Occupational Therapy using a Sensory Integration frame of reference (OT-SI)
was done.
The results of 19 subjects on the OPQ were compared with the results on two other
standardised measures -the Short Sensory Profile (SSP), and Parenting Stress Index
(PSI-SF) at six monthly intervals.
Convergent validity between family impact on the OPQ and the PSI-SF was moderate but
for occupation performance on the OPQ and the SSP it changed from negligible to
moderate over 12 months. The OPQ is responsive to change as correlations between
improvements in the three outcome measures were moderate. The OPQ was found to still
need attention in terms of item reliability and validity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/8746 |
| Date | 20 September 2010 |
| Creators | Wallace, Kerry Anne |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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