The Rabideau Kitchen Evaluation-Revised: An Assessment of Meal Preparation Skill

Abstract

This paper describes the Rabideau Kitchen Evaluation-Revised (RKE-R), an assessment of meal preparation skill for adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) that yields information about client skill with component steps of an actual meal preparation activity—preparation of a sandwich and a hot beverage. Validity and reliability studies on this instrument are also described. An inter-rater reliability study yielded an 86% agreement among eight evaluators. A test-retest study with four adult men with TBI resulted in a Spearman rank order correlation coefficient of 0.80. Preliminary norms from a sample of 34 ambulatory men with TBI, ages 18 to 49, are reported, and suggest that the RKE-R may not be a useful evaluation tool for clients with subtle cognitive/perceptual deficits. Recommendations for modifying the RKE-R to increase the clinical information it can provide are discussed.

Keywords

activities of daily living independent living skills traumatic brain injury

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