Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0487
ISSN: 2161-0487
Cahit Kaya
Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Psychol Psychother
Participation and autonomy are two of the vital treatment and rehabilitation outcomes for people with chronic illness and disability including people with cancer. The purpose of this study is to investigate psychometric properties of Impact on Participation and Autonomy Scale (IPA) with a sample of cancer patients. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze data collected from 186 cancer patients who completed the IPA, Health Care Climate Questionnaire (HCCQ), Satisfaction with Life scale (SWLS) Scale, and role functioning subscale of the Quality-of-Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30). In contrary to original the five-factor solution, the results provided a better fit for a three-factor correlated model (the three factors: ADL/IADL, social relations, and employment and education. The IPA factors were significantly associated with supportive healthcare climate, role functioning, and life satisfaction in the theoretically expected directions providing support for the validity of the scale. Overall, The IPA is a psychometrically sound measure of participation and autonomy that can be used to assess cancer survivors’ levels of community participation for treatment planning and selection of evidencebased healthcare and psychosocial interventions for cancer survivors. This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Informed consent was obtained from all individual adult participants included in the study; assent was obtained from children. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Kuwait Ministry of Education and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Cahit Kaya is an assistant professor at the department of psychiatry at Arabian Gulf University. He is currently the coordinator of ethics and professionalism program. He has worked as a mental health professional at different companies and organizations and as an assistant professor at Penn State and Southern University in the U.S. and as an associate professor and assistant chair at Giresun University. He has two Ph.D.`s in rehabilitation psychology and special education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison one of the leading institutions in the U.S. His current areas of research include psychosocial aspects including depression and anxiety, mental health counseling, multicultural counseling, secondary transition, postsecondary education interventions, vocational rehabilitation, and research methods in rehabilitation psychology. He has attended various national and international conferences and is currently the author of more than 40 articles and 6 book chapters. He likes traveling and learning new cultures and is interested in learning different languages