Development and psychometric properties of the client's assessment of treatment scale for supported accommodation (CAT-SA).

Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 100968559 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1471-244X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 1471244X NLM ISO Abbreviation: BMC Psychiatry Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: London : BioMed Central, [2001-

Patient Satisfaction*; Community Mental Health Services/*statistics & numerical data ; Mental Disorders/*therapy ; Surveys and Questionnaires/*standards; Adult ; Female ; Focus Groups ; Humans ; Male ; Mental Disorders/psychology ; Psychometrics/statistics & numerical data ; Quality of Health Care/standards ; Quality of Life ; Reproducibility of Results ; United Kingdom

Background: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important for evaluating mental health services. Yet, no specific PROM exists for the large and diverse mental health supported accommodation sector. We aimed to produce and validate a PROM specifically for supported accommodation services, by adapting the Client's Assessment of Treatment Scale (CAT) and assessing its psychometric properties in a large sample.
Methods: Focus groups with service users in the three main types of mental health supported accommodation services in the United Kingdom (residential care, supported housing and floating outreach) were conducted to adapt the contents of the original CAT items and assess the acceptability of the modified scale (CAT-SA). The CAT-SA was then administered in a survey to service users across England. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach's alpha. Convergent validity was tested through correlations with subjective quality of life and satisfaction with accommodation, as measured by the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life (MANSA).
Results: All seven original items of the CAT were regarded as relevant to appraisals of mental health supported accommodation services, with only slight modifications to the wording required. In the survey, data were obtained from 618 clients. The internal consistency of the CAT-SA items was 0.89. Mean CAT-SA scores were correlated with the specific accommodation item on the MANSA (r s  = 0.37, p ˂ .001).
Conclusions: The content of the CAT-SA has relevance to service users living in mental health supported accommodation. The findings from our large survey show that the CAT-SA is acceptable across different types of supported accommodation and suggest good psychometric properties. The CAT-SA appears a valid and easy to use PROM for service users in mental health supported accommodation services.

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RP-PG-0610-10097 United Kingdom DH_ Department of Health

Date Created: 20160226 Date Completed: 20160826 Latest Revision: 20220129

20240829

PMC4766675

10.1186/s12888-016-0755-3

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