Screening Tool for Patient Motivation

[fozzy40]

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Hello,

I'm a 4th year PM&R resident and had an interesting lecture today regarding post-stroke rehabilitation. Motivation (in my opinion) is clearly a major factor that plays into participation into therapies and impacts their overall function. Therapies do have varying degrees of difficulty and I would like to stratify the "less motivated" patients into the less difficult therapies INITIALLY so that I don't set them up for failure. Once they see the benefits, I can gradually transition them into different therapies.

Realizing that motivation has multiple internal and external factors, I imagine that it is difficult to quantify. That being said, are there any validated screening tools for motivation?

Thanks for your time.

 

[mvan1]

Off the top of my head... You could present a tx option then use the PANAS?

 

[fozzy40]

Thank you for your response. I'm not familiar how the PANAS is typically used in research. What types of questions are on it?

 

[mvan1]

Its a list of pos or neg items in which you ask clients to rate to what extent they feel/felt that way about "x" (5 point likert). You can create x, so in your example, present the tx option than direct responses to consider it. ex: interested, excited, irritable, inspired, etc.