Administrators can specify whether an assessment definition is group or role based using the Type drop-down list. When the Group Based option is selected, the questions asked during the assessment are specific to a group of clients, such as a household i.e. If there are 5 members in the household the questions are asked only once of the entire household.
When the 'Role Based' option is selected, the questions asked are specific to the roles defined for the assessment definition. For example, for the CSN assessment, the questions are specifically asked of the Primary Caregiver and asked of the Secondary Caregiver.
For group-based assessments, the name of the group must also be specified.
A configuration option is provided that allows administrators to specify whether the assessment questions are applicable to each role on the assessment or to specific roles only. For example, an administrator can configure the assessment questions to apply to the Primary Caregiver and Secondary Caregiver but not the Focus Child in a CSN assessment. Indicating If Questions Are Applicable describes this option.
When the Questions Applicable option is set on the role and the Role Based option is selected for an assessment definition, the assessment questions are asked of the roles defined for the assessment definition.
Some assessments which have group and role characteristics will require results to be displayed for both a group of clients and for individual clients. For such assessments, some factors will be group based where there are results for a group of clients and other factors will be role based where there are results for individual clients. The assessment framework supports the display of such results by displaying factors with results for a group of clients in one list and displaying factors with results for individual clients in another list. For example, the Reunification assessment consists of four parts and has results for each part, some of which are for a group of clients and others which are for individual clients. The four parts are Risk, Visitation, Safety and Placement and results are determined for each part so four factors are configured to represent the results. The Risk and Safety factors produce results for a group of clients and the Visitation and Placement factors produce results for clients satisfying the child role. So the assessment results display the results for Risk and Safety factors together and the results for Visitation and Placement factors together.
For such assessments that have group and role characteristics, the results page must be specified as AssessmentDelivery_viewCombinedResultsForInstance. This page displays the factor for a client if there is an associated case participant ID. If there is no associated case participant ID, the page will display the factor for the group.