Authors
Olatz Garin, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Josué Almansa, Marta Nieto, Somnath Chatterji, Gemma Vilagut, Jordi Alonso, Alarcos Cieza, Olga Svetskova, Helena Burger, Vittorio Racca, Carlo Francescutti, Eduard Vieta, Nenad Kostanjsek, Alberto Raggi, Matilde Leonardi, Montse Ferrer, MHADIE consortium
Publication date
2010/12
Journal
Health and quality of life outcomes
Volume
8
Pages
1-15
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
The WHODAS-2 is a disability assessment instrument based on the conceptual framework of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). It provides a global measure of disability and 7 domain-specific scores. The aim of this study was to assess WHODAS-2 conceptual model and metric properties in a set of chronic and prevalent clinical conditions accounting for a wide scope of disability in Europe.
Methods
1,119 patients with one of 13 chronic conditions were recruited in 7 European centres. Participants were clinically evaluated and administered the WHODAS-2 and the SF-36 at baseline, 6 weeks and 3 months of follow-up. The latent structure was explored and confirmed by factor analysis (FA). Reliability was assessed in terms of internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) and reproducibility (intra-class …
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