4th Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, General Faculty Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
To ensure the validity and therapeutic utility of the Neck disability index (NDI) scale, translations, cultural adaptations and psychometric evidence is necessary. This study aimed to address the abse...
Following guidelines provided by the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons, the original English NDI scale was cross-culturally adapted into Hindi. The adaptation process included translations (...
The NDI-Hi version exhibited favorable psychometric properties, including good test-retest reliability with an intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.87. Internal consistency of the scale was ...
The NDI-Hi demonstrated validity and reliability as an outcome tool for assessing neck disability. It can be effectively utilized in clinical practice and research settings involving Hindi-speaking in...
The aims of this study were to establish national disability weights based on the health state preferences of a Dutch general population sample, examine the relation between results and respondent's c...
In this cross-sectional study, a web-based survey was administered to a general population 18-75 years from the Netherlands. The survey included paired comparison questions. Paired comparison data wer...
3994 respondents completed the questionnaire. The disability weights ranged from 0.007 (95%UI: 0.003-0.012) for mild distance vision impairment to 0.741 (95% UI: 0.498-0.924) for intensive care unit a...
Respondent's characteristics had no influence on health state valuations with the paired comparison. However, comparison of the Dutch disability weights to the European disability weights indicates th...
Disability is an important multifaceted construct. A brief, generic self-reported disability questionnaire that promises a broader and more comparable measure of disability than disease-specific instr...
An online survey was used to collect general population data. Data were randomly divided into training and validation subsets. The dimensionality and structure of eight UDI questionnaire items were ev...
403 participants enrolled; 364 completed at least one UDI item. Three single-factor versions of the UDI were assessed (8-item, 7-item, and 6-item). All versions performed well during EFA and CFA (182 ...
A brief, generic self-reported disability questionnaire was found to be valid and to possess good psychometric properties. The UDI has a single factor structure and either a 6-item, 7-item or 8-item v...
The relation of sarcopenia and disability in MS is unknown....
To investigate the relation of temporal muscle thickness (TMT) and disability....
A cohort of 132 people who presented with a clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) suggestive of MS at a mean age of 30.0 years, were prospectively followed clinically and with MRI over 30-years. TMT and ...
At 30-years, 27 participants remained classified as having had a CIS, 34 converted to relapsing remitting MS, 26 to secondary progressive MS, and 16 had died due to MS. Using linear mixed effect model...
TMT thinning is accelerated in MS and correlated with disability in later disease stages, but is not predictive of future disability....
To identify the trajectories and clinical associations of functional disability in systemic sclerosis (SSc)....
Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study (ASCS) participants meeting ACR/EULAR criteria for SSc recruited within 5 years of disease onset, with ≥2 Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index (HAQ-DI) ...
We identified two HAQ-DI trajectory groups within 426 ASCS participants with incident SSc: low-stable disability (n=221, 52%), and high-increasing disability (n=205, 48%). Participants with high-incre...
Two trajectories of functional disability in SSc were identified. Those with high-increasing functional disability had a distinct clinical phenotype and worse survival compared to those with low-stabl...
The following article is an element of a 4-part series on the presentation and discussion of new design recommendations for disability compensation in the private accident insurance. The introduction ...
Reliable measurement of disability in multiple sclerosis (MS) using a comprehensive, patient self-reported scale, such as the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0, wou...
In the Trajectories of Outcome in Neurological Conditions-MS study, WHODAS 2.0 (WHODAS-36 items for working, WHODAS-32 items if not working, WHODAS-12 items short-form) was examined using Rasch analys...
The 36- and 32-item parallel forms, and the cognitive and physical domains, showed reliability consistent with individual or group use. The 12-item short-form is valid for group use only. Interval lev...
Disability in MS can be comprehensively measured at interval level by the WHODAS 2.0, and validly monitored over time. Routine use of this self-reported measure in clinical and research practice would...
Pain relief and reduced disability are both common treatment targets for persistent disabling low back pain (LBP). Cross-sectional studies show a moderate relationship between functional disability an...
Self-reported measures of pain intensity and patient-specific functional disability were collected prior to each treatment session from 40 participants during a 12-week intervention period. Linear mix...
Thirty-five participants had sufficient data for analysis. Using the linear mixed-model approach, there was evidence of a moderate and simultaneous association between pain intensity and functional di...
Changes in pain intensity and functional disability were moderately related across the intervention. Visual inspection of graphs indicated a very close relationship in some individuals and a decouplin...
Social security disability assessors are required to objectively quantify disability with regards to potential ability to work. Difficulties arise when assessments need to be performed in the absence ...
Stroke secondary prevention trials have disproportionately enrolled participants with mild or no disability. The impact of this bias remains unclear....
To investigate the association between poststroke disability and the rate of recurrent stroke during long-term follow up....
This cohort study is a post hoc analysis of the Prevention Regimen For Effectively Avoiding Second Strokes (PRoFESS) and Insulin Resistance Intervention After Stroke (IRIS) secondary prevention clinic...
The exposure was poststroke functional status at study baseline, defined as modified Rankin Scale (mRS; range, 0-5; higher score indicates more disability) score of 0 vs 1 to 2 vs 3 or greater....
The primary outcome was recurrent stroke. The secondary outcome was major cardiovascular events (MACE), defined as recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction, new or worsening heart failure, or vascular ...
A total of 20 183 PRoFESS participants (mean [SD] age, 66.1 [8.5] years; 12 931 [64.1%] male) and 3265 IRIS participants (mean [SD] age, 62.7 [10.6] years; 2151 [65.9%] male) were included. The median...
This cohort study found that higher baseline poststroke disability was associated with increased rates of recurrent stroke and MACE. Including more patients with greater baseline disability in stroke ...
