PART-O - Participation Assessment with Recombined Tools-Objective

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Overview

Purpose
Measure community and society participation following traumatic brain injury
Respondents
  • Proxy
  • Person with a Disability
Administration Method
Interview
Administration Mode
Phone
Developer
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research’s Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems. The original PART-O included 24 items derived or modified from three measures commonly found in the TBI literature: Community Integration Questionnaire (Willer, Ottenbacher and Coad, 1994); Participation Objective, Participation Subjective (Brown, Dijkers, Gordon et al., 2004); and the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique (Whiteneck, Charlifue, Gerhart et al., 1992).
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Population
Traumatic Brain Injury

Instrument Citation(s)

Bogner, J. (2013). The Participation Assessment with Recombined Tools-Objective. The
Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury. http://www.tbims.org/combi/parto

Bogner, J.A., Whiteneck, G.G., Corrigan, J.D., Lai, J., Dijkers, M.P., & Heinemann, A.W. (2011).
Comparison of scoring methods for the Participation Assessment with Recombined Tools –
Objective. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92, 552-563.

Whiteneck, G.G., Dijkers, M.P., Heinemann, A.W., Bogner, J.A., Bushnik, T., Cicerone, K.D., Corrigan, J.D.,
Hart, T., Malec, J.F., & Millis, S.R. (2011). Development of the Participation Assessment with
Recombined Tools – Objective for use after traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92, 542-551.

Psychometric Citation

  • Whiteneck, G.G., Dijkers, M.P., Heinemann, A.W., Bogner, J.A., Bushnik, T., Cicerone, K.D., Corrigan, J.D.,
    Hart, T., Malec, J.F., & Millis, S.R. (2011). Development of the Participation Assessment with
    Recombined Tools – Objective for use after traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical
    Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92, 542-551.

    Type of Publication
    Peer review
    Instrument Language
    English
    Sample: Age (Mean and Range)

    Mean=36.6 years

    Sample: Age Group

    18-64 Years

    Sample: Countries/State

    The U.S.: AL, CA, CO, MN, NJ, NY, OH, and PA

    Sample: Disability Type

    Traumatic Brain Injury

    Sample: Gender (%male)

    71%

    Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)

    74% white;
    12% black;
    11% Hispanic;
    3% other races

    Sample: Sampling Strategy

    Not Reported

    Sample: Size

    400

    Reliability: Internal Consistency

    IRT: person reliability = .86.

    Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)

    Exploratory factor analysis resulted in a single factor;

    Correlations with legacy measures ranged from .36 to .83;

    Validity: Criterion Validity (Concurrent and Predictive)

    Correlations with other participation and functional measures ranged from .32 to .66 (in absolute value)

    Study design
    Cross-sectional