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Psychometric Properties of an Assessment for Mental Health Recovery Programs
The concept of recovery can be operationalized from either the point of view of the consumer, or from the perspective of the agency providing services. The Milestones of Recovery Scale (MORS) was created to capture aspects of recovery from the agency perspective. Evidence establishing the psychometric properties of the MORS was obtained in three efforts: Inter-rater reliability using staff at The Village, a multi-service organization serving the homeless mentally ill in Long Beach, California; inter-rater reliability was also obtained from Vinfen Corporation, a large provider of housing services to mentally ill persons in Boston, Massachusetts. A testāretest reliability study was conducted using staff rating of clients at The Village, and evidence for validity was obtained using the Level of Care Utilization System (LOCUS) as a validity measure. The intra-class correlation coefficient for the inter-rater reliability study was rĀ =Ā .85 (CI .81, .89) for The Village and rĀ =Ā .86 (CI .80, .90) for Vinfen Corporation; testāretest reliability was rĀ =Ā .85 (CI .81, .87); and validity coefficients for the LOCUS were at or above rĀ =Ā .49 for all subscales except one. There is sufficient evidence for the reliability and validity of the MORS