The St. Louis Inventory of Community Living Skills.

Abstract

Development o f the St. Louis Inventory o f Community LivingSkills is described. It consists o f 15 items that can be completed in 2 or 3 minutes by someone familiar with the client. Each item is rated on a 7point scale from "few or no skills" to "self-sufficient, very adequate." Each item refers to very specific community living skills, such as personal hygiene, handling money, and use o f resources etc. Used on wards in the Social Adaptation Treatment Program in a state hospital, the scale was found to have high internal consistency reliability (alpha = .91) and to have good interrater reliability (intraclass correlation = .83 for two raters). The scale was designed to be useful in measuring the level o f specific skills needed for community or group home residence, and as an important part o f the level o f functioning (LOF).

The impact of caregivers on the effectiveness of an early community mental health detection and intervention programme in Hong Kong

“…The Chinese version of the SLCSS was used to measure the level of skill a person needs to live in the community. It consists of 15 items that cover specific community living skills, such as personal hygiene, handling of money and use of resources.…”

Patient Impairment Lexicon: A Psychometric Analysis

“…All four of these quantitative judgments provided greater reliabhty estimates than the categorical DSM-111-R diagnosis. The criteria for psychometrically evaluating a diagnostic system are often quantifiable observable behaviors (e.g., Atrom, Thorell, Hornlund, & d'Elia, 1993;Coleman, Carpener, Waternaux, Levy, Shenton, Perry, Medoff, Wong, Monoach, Meyer, O'Brian, Valentino, Robinson, Smith, Makowski, & Holzman, 1993;Evenson & Boyd, 1993;Kaplan, 1993;Ponsford & Kmsella, 1991). The behavioral specificity inherent in the lexicon should fachtate its psychometric evaluation.…”