Table 3 Overview of assessment instruments
From: Effects of a multimodal activation program (SimA-P) in residents of nursing homes
Goal criterion | Method of assessment | Interpretation of Test Scores |
|---|---|---|
Psychomotor skills and falls | Modified Romberg Test (after Starischka [51]) to assess static balance | + |
Chair-stand test (after Guralnik et al. [20]) to assess lower body strength | − | |
Chair sit-and-reach test (Light et al. [32]; Rikli and Jones [41]) to assess trunk flexibility | − | |
2-min walk (after Rikli and Jones [41]) to assess habitual walking speed, step continuity and hesitancy (after Tinetti [56], Thiesemann et al. [54]) | + | |
External rating questionnaire administered to nursing staff | ./. | |
Residents’ care records for information on falls | − | |
General cognitive performance | SIDAM (after Zaudig and Hiller [62]) including the Mini Mental State Examination (after Folstein et al. [16]). Both procedures are used to assess dementia | + |
External rating questionnaire administered to nursing staff | + | |
Specific aspects of cognitive performance | Subtests of the Neuropsychological Aging Inventory, NAI (Oswald and Fleischmann [39]): | |
Number Connection Test ZVT-G | + | |
Memory Span ZN-G (repeating numbers forwards and backwards) | + | |
Picture Test BT | + | |
Activities of daily living | Anamnesis questionnaire (based on operationalized definitions: MDS/RAI—Version 2.0, Garms-Homolova and Gilgen [17]) for activities of daily living and other domains of life | − |
Neuropsychological Aging Observation Scale for Activities of Daily Living, NAB (Oswald and Fleischmann, 1994) to tap external ratings of need for care | − | |
External ratings of need for care | External rating questionnaire administered to nursing staff | + |
Change in occupational stress | Rated by nursing staff (“no change,” “better,” “worse”) | ./. |