The Community Integration Questionnaire – Revised: Australian normative data and measurement of electronic social networking

Abstract

The addition of electronic social networking items to the CIQ-R offers a contemporary method of assessing community integration following ABI. Normative CIQ-R data enhance the understanding of community integration in the general population, allowing occupational therapists and other clinicians to make more meaningful comparisons between groups.

Community integration outcomes of people with spinal cord injury and multiple matched controls: A pilot study

“…The research has added further to the emerging evidence comparing community integration outcomes of adults with neurotrauma with Australian general population CIQ‐based norms (Migliorini et al ., , early online). Previous research has identified individual priorities for each domain of community integration may vary by age and gender, and be influenced by living location and situation (Callaway et al ., ; Sander, Clark & Pappadis, ). The effects of such demographic variables on integration outcomes have traditionally been hard to unravel.…”

“…As part of revision of the CIQ, large scale normative CIQ-R data has been gathered with Australian adults of working age, and converted to CIQ normative data for use with the original scale (Callaway et al, 2015c;. The development of normative data provides opportunity for comparison of CIQ scores of people with disability to matched norms, allowing interpretation of an individual's score relative to the general population.…”

“…Willer and colleagues were among the first to advocate the assessment of community integration, developing the Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ) and defining community integration as ‘effective role performance in community settings’ (Willer et al ., ). The CIQ is a 15‐item scale providing a brief, reliable and objective assessment of home and social integration and productive (employment, education and volunteer) activities and has been used in occupational therapy and other research with a range of populations (Callaway et al ., ). The CIQ home subscale examines participation in meal preparation, cleaning, grocery shopping, childcare (where applicable) and planning of social arrangements.…”

“…This CIQ normative data have recently been used in the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to determine level of community integration in adults with TBI and high support needs to be compared with multiple matched controls (Migliorini, Enticott, Callaway, Moore & Willer, , early online). The ability to make comparisons of SCI outcomes with a matched normative sample of able‐bodied Australians of working age, holding key demographic variables constant, will provide insights to necessary future directions for community integration interventions in SCI rehabilitation and research endeavours, including those of the occupational therapy profession (Barclay et al ., ; Callaway et al ., ).…”

Application of participation in clinical practice: Key issues

“…Thirty-six articles were excluded because they were follow-up articles of a previous article about the same instrument. Five instruments claimed to measure at the level of participation, but did not clearly indicate the name of the instrument and were excluded: the WHO-Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHO-DAS 2.0) (98,99), the Life habits (Life-H) (91, 100), the Life habits for children (Life-H children) (101), the Community Integration Measure (102) and the Community Integration Questionnaire-Revised (CIQ-R) (103). Twenty-six instruments had participation in their title; 6 of which were excluded because of the combined words and narrowing the concept to social or community participation in the title: Australian Community Participation Questionnaire (ACPQ) (104), the Maastricht Social Participation Profile (MSPP) (105), the Activity & (community) Participation Questionnaire (APQ) (106), the Temple University Community Participation (TUCP) (107), the Community Participation Domains Measure (CPDM) (108) and the ICF Mental activities and Participation Measure (ICF-Mental-A&P) (109).…”