Telephone and face to face methods of assessment of veteran's community reintegration yield equivalent results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Community Reintegration of Service Members (CRIS) is a new measure of community reintegration developed to measure veteran's participation in life roles. It consists of three sub-scales: Extent of Participation (Extent), Perceived Limitations with Participation (Perceived), and Satisfaction with Participation (Satisfaction). Testing of the CRIS measure to date has utilized in-person administration. Administration of the CRIS measure by telephone, if equivalent to in-person administration, would be desirable to lower cost and decrease administrative burden. The purpose of this study was to test the equivalence of telephone and in-person mode of CRIS administration.

Methods

A convenience sample of 102 subjects (76% male, 24% female, age mean = 49 years, standard

SUBMITTER: Resnik LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3146953 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature