Person—level of difficulty with activities in a life area, Abbreviated Life Skills Profile score code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Level of difficulty with activities in a life area (LSP-16 score)
Synonymous names:	LSP-16
METEOR identifier:	575229
Registration status:	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 15/10/2014
Definition:	A person's level of functioning in performing the tasks and actions involved in the life areas specified in the abbreviated Life Skills Profile (LSP-16), as represented by a code.
Context:	Level of functioning, persons aged 18 years and over.
Data Element Concept:	Person—level of difficulty with activities in a life area

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
0	Score of 0
1	Score of 1
2	Score of 2
3	Score of 3

Supplementary values:

Value	Meaning
7	Unable to rate
9	Not stated/missing

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

The abbreviated Life Skills Profile (LSP-16) contains 16 items which provide a key measure of function and disability in people with mental illness. The focus of LSP-16 is on the person's general functioning, i.e. how the person functions in terms of their social relationships, ability to do day-to-day tasks etc. Each of the 16 items is scored on a four point scale of 0 to 3. Lower scores indicate a higher level of functioning.

Comments:

The original Life Skills Profile (LSP) was developed by a team of clinical researchers in Sydney (Rosen et al 1989, Parker et al 1991). It was designed to be a brief, specific and jargon-free scale to assess a consumer's abilities with respect to basic life skills.

Work undertaken as part of the Australian Mental Health Classification and Service Costs (MH-CASC) study saw the 39 items reduced to 16. This reduction in item number aimed to minimise the rating burden on clinicians when the measure is used in conjunction with the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS).

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Reference documents:

Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network 2005. Training Manual: Adult ambulatory. Viewed 22 May 2014,

http://amhocn.org/static/files/assets/e1aca833/
Adult_Ambulatory_Manual.pdf

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Functioning is the umbrella term for any or all of: body functions, body structures, activities and participation. Functioning is a multidimensional concept denoting the neutral aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual's environmental and personal factors.

An individual's functioning in a specific domain is an interaction or complex relationship between health conditions and environmental and personal factors.

Functioning and disability are dual concepts in a broad framework, with disability focussing on the more negative aspects of this interaction.