The reliability and validity of the Community Integration Measure in persons with traumatic brain injury.

Abstract

Results suggest that the CIM is an adequate measure of community integration for persons with histories of TBI of up to 15 years.

Translation and Initial Validation of the Chinese (Cantonese) Version of Community Integration Measure for Use in Patients with Chronic Stroke

“…It revealed the good internal consistency and excellent test-retest reliability of the Chinese version of CIM. In addition, this study extended the findings of previous investigations on the level of community integration of people with various chronic illnesses, including acquired brain injury [13], traumatic brain injury [14], and spinal cord injury [18], by investigating the level of community integration of Chinese stroke survivors in Hong Kong using a measure coherent with the ICF model. Our final 3-factor structure was comparable to those suggested by Reistetter and colleagues [3] for use in patients with brain injury, and our model was also consistent with the original theoretical model.…”

“…The CIM has demonstrated good psychometric properties with good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.87) [13, 14] and good convergent validity [13] in distinguishing acquired brain injury survivors from healthy adults. The CIM scores also have significant positive correlations with various validated measures including the Community Integration Questionnaire [6], the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) [15], the Social Provision Scale (SPS) [16], and the perceived mental health quality of life composite score of the SF-12 Health Survey (SF-12) [17].…”

“…Chinese stroke survivors, in particular, are poorly served in this respect. Although the CIM is now widely used with survivors of brain injury [3, 13, 14] and spinal cord injury [18], it has not yet been translated from English into any other languages. Thus, the objectives of this study were (1) to translate and culturally adapt the contents of the English version CIM into Chinese (Cantonese), (2) to report the results of initial validation of the Chinese (Cantonese) version CIM (CIM-C) including the content validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and factor structure in a Chinese setting, and (3) to use the CIM-C to investigate the level of community integration of stroke survivors living in Hong Kong.…”

Community reintegration and related factors in a Nigerian stroke sample

“…Consequently, the goal of stroke rehabilitation has shifted from mere survival of a victim to how well a survivor can be effectively reintegrated back into the community 8,12 .…”

“…It is the most important and ironically the most underestimated area of stroke rehabilitation 6 . The constituting domains of community reintegration may include recreation/leisure integration, social network integration, residential integration, employment/economic integration, employment stability, personal satisfaction, independent living, family role, general coping skills and so on 8,11,12,14 . However, the conceptualization of community African Health Sciences Vol 16 Issue 3, September 2016reintegration reportedly varies considerably across different authors, cultures, environments, groups, age groups and across people with different kinds and degrees of disabilities 9,15 .…”