Original scientific paper
Community-Based Rehabilitation and the Factor Structure of Competence of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Bojana Rožman
Branko Nikolić
Daniela Bratković
Abstract
With the development of community-based care and supports for people with intellectual disabilities it became evident that there is a great need to devise instruments which would be used to gather information on the levels of competence and support needs the clients in the community-based programs have. This paper presents a part of the Scale for the Assessment of Competence and Support Needs of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, related to personal competencies. The instrument was developed within the framework of the scientific research project “The Evaluation of Community-
Based Professional Support Services” of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb. The part of the Scale used relating to competence contains 54 variables in 15 fields. The research was conducted in cooperation with the Association for Promoting Inclusion (API), a Zagreb based NGO. The Scale was used to evaluate the program of community-based housing developed and implemented by API. . 45 clients of the program participated in the study. The obtained data was analyzed through factor analysis which condensed the manifested space of the 54 variables into 3 latent dimensions of personal competencies. The measurement characteristics of the Scale were analyzed.
Keywords
assessment of competence; deinstitutionalization; community-based housing
Hrčak ID:
22101
URI
Publication date:
19.3.2007.
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