Examining minimal important change of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure for subacute rehabilitation hospital inpatients

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 2 The distribution and mean change scores of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure sorted by patients’ responses in the transition index

Occupations identified by the COPM (n = 400)				COPM-P change score			COPM-S change score
Transition index		Number of occupation (%)		Mean		SD	Mean		SD
1	Much improved	45 (11.3)	307 (76.8)	4.27	±	2.84	4.62	±	2.89
2	Improved	117 (29.3)		3.94	±	2.82	3.86	±	3.00
3	A little improved	145 (36.3)		2.62	±	2.33	2.78	±	2.57
4	No change	88 (22.0)	88 (22.0)	1.09	±	2.72	0.89	±	2.56
5	A little worse	4 (1.0)	5 (1.3)	− 2.25	±	1.50	− 0.50	±	4.73
6	Worse	1 (0.3)		− 5.00	±	–	0.00	±	–
7	Much worse	0 (0.0)		–	±	–	–	±	–

COPM-P Canadian Occupational Performance Measure Performance score, COPM-S Canadian Occupational Performance Measure Satisfaction score