Quality of Life

QIAT – Quality-of-Life Impact Assessment Tool

EPR, the European Platform Rehabilitation, is launching a new service for practitioners in the development and delivery of services for persons with disabilities. QIAT, the Quality-of-Life Impact Assessment Tool, offers a web based resource to measure the impact of services on the Quality of Life with service users and their service workers. QIAT is a dynamic and interactive tool that guides participants through a defined set of questions to provide information which service managers can use to develop more inclusive and effective services.

Service areas

• Vocational Education and Training (VET)
• Specialised VET (vocational education and training for persons with disabilities)
• Community Care (CC)

Three categories of indicators

• Individual Empowerment with two indicators: Personal Development and Self-Determination.
• Social Participation & Active Inclusion with four indicators: Interpersonal Relations, Rights & Citizenship, Employability, and Community Participation.
• Wellbeing with three indicators: Emotional, Physical and Material Wellbeing.

Questionnaire versions

QIAT offers five questionnaire versions for participants in service provision, including a full version with 47 questions, plain language, simplified and assisted rating versions with less questions, and separate staff versions to serve as proxy for a  participant or to provide own opinions from a staff perspective.

Languages

QIAT is currently available in English, German, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Spanish. More languages shall be added soon.

Explore the QIAT

https://qoliserv.eu/en/qol-impact-assessment-tool

Contact the team

qiat@epr.eu

Background

QIAT is the product of a European project QOLIVET “Enhancing the Quality of Life Impact of inclusive Vocational Education and Training and Community Care” co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The objective was to support the implementation of inclusive learning strategies and the evaluation of the impact of Vocational Education and Training and Community Care on the Quality of Life of persons with disabilities. The project outcome was a dynamic web-based tool to support organisations to improve their services, to support frontline staff and managers to acquire the professional skills and attitudes required to deliver more effective interventions and supports, to ensure that participants can make a substantive contribution to service improvements, and to offer tools that identify strengths in services, areas for improvement and monitor trends over time.

Developer consortium

QIAT was developed by a group of practitioner organisations across Europe with different roles in the development and delivery of services for persons with disabilities:

• EVTA – European Vocational Training Association, Belgium
• EWORX S.A., Greece
• Fundación ONCE, Spain
• Rehab Group, Ireland
• CRPG- Centro de Reabilitação Profissional, Portugal
• URI – University Rehabilitation Institute, Slovenia
• EPR – European Platform for Rehabilitation
• Dr Donal McAnaney, Content Expert, Ireland