Question

The CIR (Clutter Image Rating) scale is used by public health/community health nurses when doing an initial home assessment on all patients they visit.

True

False

Answer 1

The CIR (Clutter Image Rating) scale is used by public health/community health nurses when doing an initial home assessment on all patients they visit.

True

False

ANSWER: False

The Clutter Image Rating (CIR) Scale gauges the impact of hoarding on the person with the hoarding behaviour.

The Clutter Image Rating is a tool that helps standardize definitions of clutter by showing a series of images depicting rooms in various stages of clutter. This allows the client, the clinician, or another observer to select the image on the scale that best corresponds with the state of the main rooms in the home. The CIR contains three sets of 9 pictures to clarify the level of clutter in the kitchen, the living room, and the bedroom. The living room photos can be used to rate other types of rooms in the home. In general, rooms that are rated as picture #4 or higher indicate a probable hoarding problem/HD diagnosis.

So this scale cannot be used to all the patients by the public health/community health nurses they visited.