Assessment of Occupational Functioning for Screening of Patients to Occupational Therapy in General Psychiatric Care

Abstract

A Swedish version of the Occupational Case Analysis Interview and Rating Scale (OCAIRS-S) has been tested earlier for interrater reliability. The present study, using the second version of OCAIRS-S and including a sample of 145 patients, showed interrater correlations between .88 and .96 (Intraclass Correlation Coefficient). The results indicate that OCAIRS-S predicts which patients should be included in and excluded from occupational therapy and identifies patients who should be observed more before making such decisions. The study indicates a need for further investigations regarding which components in OCAIRS-S influence the occupational therapist in judging the patient's need for occupational therapy.

Keywords

Psychiatry screening process screening instrument

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