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Title: Development of the workload analysis scale (WAS) for the assessment and rehabilitation services of Ballarat Health Services.
Authors: Gathercole, Michael F.
DeMello, Lesley R.
Issue Date: 2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Place of publication: London
Publication Title: Social Work in Health Care
Volume: 34
Issue: 1-2
Start Page: 143
End Page: 160
Abstract: This study describes the development of the Workload Analysis Scale (WAS), designed to predict the likely workload involved for social workers working with clients in the assessment and rehabilitation areas of Ballarat Health Services (BHS). Such a scale would allow more equitable case allocation, flagging of difficult cases, better work prioritisation, training of new staff and tracking changes over time. Items for the scale were developed in consultation with workers. Initially the scale consisted of 33 items divided into five subscales, relating respectively to treatment factors, demographics, psychosocial complexity, planned interventions and variable staff factors. Eight staff members of BHS contributed to the completion of the scale for 111 clients seen over a four month period on the rehabilitation and assessment wards. Initial analysis of the data led to a modification of the scale and subsequent satisfactory measures of reliability and validity.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11054/163
ISSN: 0098-1389
Internal ID Number: 00147
Health Subject: WORKLOAD ANALYSIS SCALE
REHABILITATION
SOCIAL WORK
ASSESSMENT
PSYCHOSOCIAL
COMPLEXITY
INTERVENTIONS
INPUTS
OUTCOMES
RELIABILITY
VALIDITY
Type: Journal Article
Article
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