The global objectives of this project were to refine and validate the content, and to obtain preliminary estimates of reliability for the STroke REhabilitation Assessment of Movement (STREAM). Two consensus panels, involving a total of twenty physical therapists, produced an intermediate test version of STREAM. Based on initial evaluations of internal consistency and reliability, items that were redundant, unrelated, and/or not reliably scored were eliminated. The final STREAM, with enhanced content validity, is made up of thirty items evaluating limb movements and basic mobility. Two reliability studies were conducted: (1) a direct observation of twenty stroke patients by pairs of raters in the clinical setting, and (2) two repeated ratings by twenty raters using videotaped assessments of four stroke patients. The STREAM demonstrated excellent internal consistency, inter- and intra-rater reliability, and is now ready for preliminary use in the clinical setting. The favorable results of this study indicate that further testing of the psychometric properties of the STREAM is warranted.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.55439 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Daley, Katherine A. |
| Contributors | Mayo, Nancy (advisor), Wood-Dauphine, Sharon (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (School of Physical and Occupational Therapy.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001441030, proquestno: AAIMM05542, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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