Title of article :
Psychometric Properties of the Korean Dispositional Hope Scale Using the Rasch Analysis in Stroke Patients
Author/Authors :
Park, Eun-Young DepartmentofSecondarySpecialEducation - CollegeofEducation- JeonjuUniversity - Baengma-gil - Wansan- gu - Jeonju, Republic of Korea , Choi, Yoo Im DepartmentofOccupationalTherapy - SchoolofMedicine&InstituteforHealthImprovement - WonkwangUniversity - Iksandae-ro - Iksan - Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea , Kim, Jung-Hee DepartmentofClinicalNursing - CollegeofNursing - TheCatholicUniversityofKorea - Banpo-daero - Seocho-gu - Seoul06591, Republic of Korea
Abstract :
Itisreportedthathopefulthinkingplaysapositiveroleinencouragingpatientstoachievefunctionalgoalsduringthe
rehabilitationprocess.Hopeisakeyconceptinevaluatingstrokeoutcomesinresearchandrehabilitationpractice.Aims.The
purposeofthisstudywastoinvestigatethepsychometricpropertiesoftheKoreanDispositionalHopeScale(K-DHS)usingthe
Raschanalysisinpatientswithhemiplegicstroke.Methods.TheK-DHSwascompletedby166community-dwellinghemiplegic
strokepatientsinKorea.Datawereanalyzedaccordingtoitemfit,itemdifficulty,andtheappropriatenessoftheratingscale
usingtheRaschanalysis.Results.Itemfitanalysisshowedthat8itemsoftheK-DHSareappropriatebecausetheinfitMSNQ
wasbetween0.7and1.3.Itemdifficultyresultsrevealedthatthereisadifferenceindistributionbetweenpersonalattributesand
itemdifficulty.Itshowsthattheitemfitstatisticsofthe4-pointLikertscaleofK-DHSareallgood.Thepersonseparationindex
demonstratedthattheK-DHScoulddifferentiatetwoorthreehopestatusstratainstrokepatients.Theitemseparationindex
indicatedthattheitemswereusefulwithhighreliability.Conclusion.TheK-DHScomprisesappropriateitemsformeasuringthe
hopeofstrokepatientslivinginthecommunity,andtheratingscaleoftheK-DHSisalsoappropriate.Thisstudyisthefirstto
conductananalysisoftheratingscaleanditsappropriateness,aswellasthedifficultyofitemsbasedonitemresponsetheory,
andoffersnewinsightsforenhancinghopeandimprovingwell-beingfollowingstroke
Keywords :
Psychometric Properties , Korean Dispositional Hope Scale , Rasch Analysis , Stroke Patients , K-DHS
Journal title :
Occupational Therapy International
