Australian Community Participation Questionnaire
Overview
- Purpose
- To measure community participation
- Respondent
- Person with a Disability
- Administration Method
- Survey
- Administration Mode
- Item Count
- 63
- Populations
- Mental Health Challenges
- Physical Disability
Instrument Citation(s)
Berry, H. & Shipley, M(2009). Longing to belong: personal soical captial and psychological distress in an Austrailian coastal region. Retrieved from https://www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/05_2012/sprp_39.pdf 
Link to survey can be found on appendix E
Instrument Domains
| Domain | Number of Items |
|---|---|
| Community Inclusion | 57 |
| Meaningful activity | 41 |
| Social connectedness and relationships | 19 |
| Employment | 0 |
| Resources and settings to facilitate inclusion | 0 |
| Transportation | 0 |
| Caregiver Support | 0 |
| Access to resources | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support involvement | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support wellbeing | 0 |
| Training and skill-building | 0 |
| Choice and Control | 0 |
| Choice of services and supports | 0 |
| Personal choices and goals | 0 |
| Personal freedoms and dignity of risk | 0 |
| Self-direction | 0 |
| Consumer Leadership in System Development | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful caregiver involvement | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| System supports meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| Equity | 0 |
| Availability | 0 |
| Equitable access and resource allocation | 0 |
| Transparency and consistency | 0 |
| Fluctuation of Need | 0 |
| Holistic Health and Functioning | 0 |
| Health promotion and prevention | 0 |
| Individual health and functioning | 0 |
| Human and Legal Rights | 0 |
| Freedom from abuse and neglect | 0 |
| Informed decision-making | 0 |
| Optimizing the preservation of legal and human rights | 0 |
| Privacy | 0 |
| Supporting individuals in exercising their human and legal rights | 0 |
| Level of Caregiver Well-Being | 0 |
| Person-Centered Planning and Coordination | 0 |
| Assessment | 0 |
| Coordination | 0 |
| Person-centered planning | 0 |
| Service Delivery and Effectiveness | 0 |
| Delivery | 0 |
| Person's needs met and goals realized | 0 |
| System Performance and Accountability | 0 |
| Data management and use | 0 |
| Evidence-based practice | 0 |
| Financing and service delivery structures | 0 |
| Workforce | 0 |
| Adequately compensated with benefits | 0 |
| Culturally competent | 0 |
| Demonstrated competencies when appropriate | 0 |
| Person-centered approach to services | 0 |
| Safety of and respect for the worker | 0 |
| Staff Turnover | 0 |
| Sufficient workforce numbers dispersion and availability | 0 |
| Workforce engagement and participation | 0 |
Psychometric Citations
Berry, H. L., Rodgers, B., & Dear, K. B. (2007). Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire: Types of participation and associations with distress in a coastal community. Social science & medicine, 64(8), 1719-1737.
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
mean 52.76; range 19–97;
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years; 65+ Years
- Sample: Countries/State
Australia
- Sample: Disability Type
Not Reported
- Sample: Gender (%male)
500 women (51.9%)
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
Not Reported
- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Stratified Random Sample
- Sample: Size
963
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
Cronbach's alpha = .88
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
Active interest in current affairs (AIC: start = 619.62; end = 65.36); Voluntary sector activity (AIC: start = 179.86; end = 55.45)
- Validity: Face Validity
Defining participation as comprising informal social connectedness, civic engagement, and political participation.
- Study design
- Cross-Sectional
Berry, H. L., & Shipley, M. (2009). Longing to belong: personal social capital and psychological distress in an Australian coastal region. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
- Type of Publication
- Technical report
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
19 to 97 years (M=52.78 years, SD=18.24, Md=52 years)
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years, 65+ Years
- Sample: Countries/State
Australia
- Sample: Disability Type
Not Reported
- Sample: Gender (%male)
500 women (51.9 per cent) and 463 men (48.1 per cent)
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
Not Reported
- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Stratified Random Sample
- Sample: Size
963
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
Contact with immediate household 0.96; Contact with extended family 0.86; Contact with friends 0.85; Contact with neighbours 0.92; Social contact with workmates 0.88; Adult learning .74; Religious observance .76; Organised community activities .90; Voluntary sector activity .90; Giving money to charity .64; Active interest in current affairs .85; Expressing opinions publicly .85; Community activism .88; Political protest .72
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
One‐factor congeneric modelling provided strong support for the construct validity.
- Validity: Content Validity (e.g., Expert Judgement)
One‐factor congeneric modelling provided strong support for the content validity (representativeness of items).
- Validity: Face Validity
One‐factor congeneric modelling provided strong support for the face validity (self‐evident validity).
- Study design
- Cross-Sectional