Developing a revised easy-read version of ASCOT
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing a revised easy-read version of ASCOT
IRAS ID
210372
Contact name
Ann-Marie Towers
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 3 months, 29 days
Research summary
This research is a continuation of a research programme to look at ways to include more people in surveys of adult social care to ensure that the local/national government and service providers can monitor the quality of the care people are receiving in the UK.
The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) is a set of questions which are included in current surveys of social care. ASCOT questions have been designed to get people's views on how much their care helps in different areas of their lives, such as having control over daily life.
An earlier phase of work developed an improved easy-read version of ASCOT to make it easier for people to use. In this research, we want to:
1. Pilot the new easy-read ASCOT questionnaire with people with learning disabilities and autism. The development of this questionnaire involved focus groups and interviews with people with learning disabilities and autism to reword and reformat the questions to make them easier to use. This research aims to test the questions in a paper-based self-completion survey. This will help identify whether the questionnaire works as it should and whether it may be further improved.
2. Develop and test an electronic version of the easy-read ASCOT questions that might be administered through digital devices, such as iPads. This study will develop a beta-version for inclusion in future pilot studies to evaluate its usefulness and usability by service users and assess its impact on the psychometric properties of ASCOT.
The research is funded by the Department of Health and is being undertaken by the QORU research unit at the University of Kent with Hft (service provider). The team includes researchers who have expertise in social care outcome measurement (including the development of ASCOT) and/or in research with people with autism and learning disabilities.
REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
16/IEC08/0029
Date of REC Opinion
4 Oct 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion