• Title of article

    Psychometric Properties of the Korean Dispositional Hope Scale Using the Rasch Analysis in Stroke Patients

  • Author/Authors

    Park, Eun-Young DepartmentofSecondarySpecialEducation - CollegeofEducation- JeonjuUniversity - Baengma-gil - Wansan- gu - Jeonju, Republic of Korea , Choi, Yoo Im DepartmentofOccupationalTherapy - SchoolofMedicine&InstituteforHealthImprovement - WonkwangUniversity - Iksandae-ro - Iksan - Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea , Kim, Jung-Hee DepartmentofClinicalNursing - CollegeofNursing - TheCatholicUniversityofKorea - Banpo-daero - Seocho-gu - Seoul06591, Republic of Korea

  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    7
  • Abstract
    Itisreportedthathopefulthinkingplaysapositiveroleinencouragingpatientstoachievefunctionalgoalsduringthe rehabilitationprocess.Hopeisakeyconceptinevaluatingstrokeoutcomesinresearchandrehabilitationpractice.Aims.The purposeofthisstudywastoinvestigatethepsychometricpropertiesoftheKoreanDispositionalHopeScale(K-DHS)usingthe Raschanalysisinpatientswithhemiplegicstroke.Methods.TheK-DHSwascompletedby166community-dwellinghemiplegic strokepatientsinKorea.Datawereanalyzedaccordingtoitemfit,itemdifficulty,andtheappropriatenessoftheratingscale usingtheRaschanalysis.Results.Itemfitanalysisshowedthat8itemsoftheK-DHSareappropriatebecausetheinfitMSNQ wasbetween0.7and1.3.Itemdifficultyresultsrevealedthatthereisadifferenceindistributionbetweenpersonalattributesand itemdifficulty.Itshowsthattheitemfitstatisticsofthe4-pointLikertscaleofK-DHSareallgood.Thepersonseparationindex demonstratedthattheK-DHScoulddifferentiatetwoorthreehopestatusstratainstrokepatients.Theitemseparationindex indicatedthattheitemswereusefulwithhighreliability.Conclusion.TheK-DHScomprisesappropriateitemsformeasuringthe hopeofstrokepatientslivinginthecommunity,andtheratingscaleoftheK-DHSisalsoappropriate.Thisstudyisthefirstto conductananalysisoftheratingscaleanditsappropriateness,aswellasthedifficultyofitemsbasedonitemresponsetheory, andoffersnewinsightsforenhancinghopeandimprovingwell-beingfollowingstroke
  • Keywords
    Psychometric Properties , Korean Dispositional Hope Scale , Rasch Analysis , Stroke Patients , K-DHS
  • Journal title
    Occupational Therapy International
  • Serial Year
    2019
  • Full Text URL
    downloads.hindawi.com/journals/oti/2019/7058415.pdf
  • Record number

    2615890

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