The Self-Regulation Assessment (SeRA) questionnaire: development and exploratory analyses of a new patient-reported outcome measure for rehabilitation.
T I Mol, C A M van Bennekom, E W M Scholten and 6 others
PMID 35672153WHAT IT FOUND
In 563 former rehab patients, a new 22-item self-regulation questionnaire grouped into four areas: understanding the condition, understanding capabilities, trusting self and applying strategies, and organizing help.
It is not yet tested in current rehab.
Key findings
01The SeRA items formed four components, with the first component much stronger than the other three.
02The total SeRA and its subscales showed high internal consistency.
03Subscale 1 had a ceiling effect, with 22.2% of participants scoring the maximum.
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What it does not show
The study was exploratory and did not confirm the four-component structure with a separate confirmatory analysis. Only former rehabilitation patients who had finished treatment were included, so the results may not apply to patients currently receiving rehabilitation. The questionnaire was developed in Dutch, and the English version is preliminary and not validated. Subscale 1 had a ceiling effect, with 22.2% of participants scoring the maximum. No test-retest reliability, responsiveness, or discriminative validity was shown. Only 563 of the 2988 invited former patients were analysed.
Declared interests
The work was supported by ZonMw under project number 63000004. The supplied text reports no commercial sponsor or author conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the four-component structure as evidence that SeRA is ready for clinical use. It was developed in Dutch, tested only in former rehabilitation patients, and the English version is preliminary and not validated.