Crosscultural Validation of the Community Integration Questionnaire-Revised in an Italian Population.
Melissa Ioncoli, Anna Berardi, Marco Tofani and 4 others
PMID 32934614WHAT IT FOUND
An Italian version of the community integration questionnaire was stable when 50 healthy adults repeated it after 14 days.
Only the home participation section scored consistently. It has not been checked in people with disability.
Key findings
01In 50 of 400 healthy adults, repeating the Italian CIQ-R after 14 days gave very stable scores, with ICC values from 0.90 to 0.98 on a scale where 1 means perfect agreement.
02Only the home integration subscale met the paper's consistency threshold, at 0.82, while the total score and other subscales were below 0.70.
03The total score and two subscales had weak relationships with the physical health quality-of-life score, with correlation values of 0.118, 0.121, and 0.182; the paper calls values from 0 to 0.3 weak.
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What it does not show
The study tested only healthy adults with no clinical evidence of disability, so it does not show how the questionnaire performs in patients with brain or spinal injury. Only the home integration subscale met the internal consistency threshold; the total score and the other subscales did not, so the total score may not be dependable. The construct check used the physical health part of the SF-12, not a validated Italian measure of community integration. The sample was limited to adults aged 18 to 64. Test-retest stability was checked in only 50 of the 400 participants.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as validation for people with disability. The 400 participants were healthy adults aged 18 to 64 with no clinical evidence of disability, so the scores are not yet checked in patient groups.