Personal Outcome Scale (POS)

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Van Loon, J., Van Hove, G., Schalock, R., & Claes, C. (2009). Personal outcomes scale: Administration and standardization manual. Ghent, Netherlands: Stichting Arduin.
General information
Purpose The Personal Outcomes Scale (POS) has been developed for the purpose of assessing a person’s quality of life (QOL) based on specific indicators associated with each of the eight core QOL domains that have been validated in a series of cross-cultural studies.
Domain(s) Goal Pursuit
Positive Affect
Quality of Life
Target population Adult, Child
Number of items 8
Administration format
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Alternate forms
Availability in other languages Portuguese, Spanish
Fee for use
Free
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This is both a self and proxy report measures

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Carbó-Carreté, M., Guàrdia-Olmos, J., & Giné, C. (2015). Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Personal Outcomes Scale. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 15(3), 236–252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2015.04.002


Simões, C., Santos, S., & Biscaia, R. (2016). Validation of the Portuguese version of the Personal Outcomes Scale. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 16(2), 186–200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2015.11.002


Guàrdia-Olmos, J., Carbó-Carreté, M., Peró-Cebollero, M., & Giné, C. (2017). Item response theory analysis applied to the Spanish version of the Personal Outcomes Scale. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 61(11), 1021–1033. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.12407

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