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Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 16, No. 2, 190-203 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/016327879301600204
© 1993 SAGE Publications

Reliability of Katz's Activities of Daily Living Scale When Used in Telephone Interviews

James R. Ciesla

Leiyu Shi

Carleen H. Stoskopf

Michael E. Samuels

University of South Carolina

The reliability of afive-item Katz's Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scale collected by selfreport telephone interview is presented. A random sample of 6,472 South Carolina residents over 55 years of age selected from a statewide population is used. Factor structure, Guttman properties, internal consistency reliability, Mokken's index of test homogeneity, and Spearman's coefficient of rank-order correlation are used to show that ADL data gathered by telephone interview are reliable. Because telephone interviewing methods are faster, cheaper, and safertheyare recommended as a viable wayfor researchers, policymnakers, and practitioners to gather ADL information.


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