Sammendrag
Persons with concurrent mental health and
substance use disorders often do not participate
actively in society and remain marginalized. The
promotion of social inclusion is important for the care
of persons with concurrent disorders. To measure
social inclusion, the Social and Communities Opportunities Profile (SCOPE) was developed, followed by
its mini version for English-speaking people in
Singapore. In Norway, there is no instrument available
to measure social inclusion. Thus, the aim was crosscultural adaptation of SCOPE Mini for persons with
concurrent disorders. The Norwegian adaptation was performed using the systematic approach recommended by Beaton et al. After a forward–backward
translation, the Norwegian SCOPE-Mini was pretested among 30 persons with a concurrent mental
health and substance use disorder in three areas to
check its psychometric properties. To evaluate comprehensibility and applicability, participants were
asked five open questions. The Norwegian crosscultural adaptation of SCOPE Mini showed acceptable psychometric properties and was considered
comparable to the original version. The results of the
pre-test showed no linguistic inconsistency, but some
indications of the necessity of semantic adaptation
regarding the cultural context and persons with
concurrent disorders. The Norwegian SCOPE Mini
may be a practical tool for health professionals, social
workers, and researchers to measure social inclusion
among a vulnerable group such as persons with a
concurrent mental health and substance use disorder.
However, given the relatively small sample size in our
study, further research on the validity and reliability of
the instrument is recommended.
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