The community integration measure: Development and preliminary validation

Objective To present a new measure of community integration, the Community Integration Measure (CIM), and to offer preliminary information about its psychometric properties. Design Validation study. Setting Community. Participants Ninety-two participants placed in 3 subgroups (brain injury survivors, n = 41; significant others, n = 36; college students, n = 15). Main outcome measures The distributional properties, factor structure, internal consistency reliability, content validity, discriminant validity, concurrent validity, and construct validity of the CIM. Results All items correlated positively with each other and with the total score. Principal components factor analysis confirmed a 1-factor structure, which explained 44.1% of the variance. Internal consistency reliability, using Cronbach's alpha, was.87. Content validity was assured by the development procedure, correspondence with the theoretical…