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  • Title: Goal Attainment Scaling. Relevance and replicability in follow-up of inpatients.
    Author: Lewis AB, Spencer JH, Haas GL, DiVittis A.
    Journal: J Nerv Ment Dis; 1987 Jul; 175(7):408-18. PubMed ID: 3598568.
    Abstract:
    First proposed by Kiresuk in 1968, Goal Attainment Scaling has been widely and enthusiastically accepted as an evaluation tool in service delivery and education. However, it has not been much used in controlled research, probably because its reliability and validity have been questioned by critics. The authors have used Goal Attainment Scaling as one of a number of outcome measures in a research project on the effect of family intervention on inpatients. In the course of doing so, they have developed guidelines for gathering information, constructing goal scales, selecting expected outcome levels, and categorizing subsequent outcome data. They believe that these guidelines have clinical integrity and that their use would improve the reliability of goal attainment scaling without detracting from its value as an individualized measure. With these modifications, Goal Attainment Scaling can be made more systematic and therefore more reliable without losing its intrinsic value as an individually targeted outcome measure.
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