A Review of the Applications of the REHAB Assessment System

Abstract

In the last 10 years, as part of the push towards greater community provision of services for the psychiatrically disabled in the UK, assessment has assumed a prominent position. A variety of different assessment instruments have been employed, including assessment of patient attitudes and opinions, of the environment, social networks and basic living skills (Carson, 1991; TAPS, 1992). Amongst the differing assessment types, behaviour rating scales have a distinct contribution. They are particularly applicable to group settings such as hostels or hospital wards and have the advantage of being objective, behavioural, able to measure change in functioning over time or due to some intervention; and most importantly, they yield numerical scores which can be assessed against “hard data” in the form of norms or scores from other populations, especially those from other countries.

A randomized controlled trial of the effects of multi‐sensory stimulation (MSS) for people with dementia

“…Observation of behaviour within the normal regime of the day hospital was carried out by two members of staff working at the day hospital by using REHAB (Baker & Hall, 1983), a widely used rating form originally designed to assess change in long-stay psychiatric patients (Ruud, Martinsen, & Friis, 1998). It has been successfully used before with large samples of elderly mentally ill patients (Baker & Hall, 1994;Carson, Patrick, & Shaw, 1989;Nichol, 1989). Carson et al (1989) found the inter-rater reliability to be .80 for the General Behaviour subscale and .77 for the Deviant Behaviour subscale for the elderly mentally ill population.…”

Development of an emotional processing scale

“…In order to permit sufficient change to be detected and to increase the sensitivity of the scale in general, a 10-point visual analogue format similar to that of the phobic rating scale of Marks and Mathews [60] and the REHAB questionnaire of Baker and Hall [61,62] was used. Five attitudinal anchor statements joined by dotted lines were placed under a visual analogue line to orient respondents (completely disagree, disagree, in between, agree, and completely agree).…”

Designing a CBT service for an acute inpatient setting: A pilot evaluation study

“…The most fully researched tool for such ideographic measurement is probably the Personal Questionnaire (Chalkley & Mulhall, 1991;Shapiro, 1961). As this can be cumbersome to administer, the visualanalogue line method of recording used by Baker and Hall (1994) in their observational evaluation package, Rehabilitation Evaluation Hall and Baker Scale (REHAB), was employed as a compromise. This measure consisted of two separate forms, one for 'before intervention' and one for 'after intervention'.…”