Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
1997
Program
Physical Therapy
Abstract
This study used Rasch methodology to pursue three goals. First, we sought to demonstrate the psychometric limitations of the Falls Efficacy Scale (Tinetti, Richman, & Powell, 1990). Second, we addressed these limitations using a simultaneous calibration of the Falls Efficacy Scale and Mobility Efficacy Scale items. Third, we review previous explorations of the self-efficacy construct in relationship to health behaviors and discuss a possible treatment program based on the simultaneous calibrated items and Social Cognitive Theory. Results indicate that responses from the Falls Efficacy Scale fail to assess the higher ends of the self-efficacy continuum. Simultaneous calibration of items improved this lack of scale definition. This initial work in assessing self-efficacy perceptions provides a theoretical framework for planning treatment programs that may be more cost effective than collecting performance measures.
Recommended Citation
Lusardi, Michelle M. and Smith, Everett V. Jr., "Development of a Scale to Assess Concern About Falling and Applications to Treatment Programs" (1997). All PTHMS Faculty Publications. 45.
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/pthms_fac/45
Publication
Journal of Outcome Measurement
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
34-55
Comments
Originally published:
Lusardi, Michelle M., Smith Jr., Everett V. "Development of a Scale to Assess Concern About Falling and Applications to Treatment Programs." Journal of Outcome Measurement 1.1 (1997): 34-55.