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Measuring health and disability : manual for WHO Disability Assessment Schedule : WHODAS 2.0
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Ethical Quandaries for Psychologists in Workers’ Compensation Settings: the GAF Gaffe
TL;DR: The present analysis demonstrates that psychologists working in evaluative contexts in WC settings may be putting themselves in ethically precarious situations in their legally mandated use of the GAF to evaluate permanent disability relating to alleged psychiatric injuries.
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Inter-rater and test/retest reliabilities of the isokinetic measurements: assessing strength and endurance of the trunk muscles in two different protocols for able-bodied and post-stroke hemiparesis
TL;DR: Results indicate acceptable reliability, in two different protocols, confirming the repeatability of the isokinetic measures for trunk muscles in able-bodied and post-stroke hemiparesis people.
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First Do No Harm: Ethical Issues in Pathologizing Normal Variations in Behavior and Functioning
Julie A. Suhr,Ellen Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: This study examines how decisions about diagnosis, impairment, and disability are made in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorder and presents evidence that psychologists making diagnoses and disability determinations often over-pathologize everyday behaviors and experiences.
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Large-Scale Assessment of Function and Disability in Patients with Parkinson's Disease Using the Functioning Disability Evaluation Scale-Adult Version.
Tzu Herng Hsu,Tsan Hon Liou,Kuei Ru Chou,Wen Chou Chi,Chia Feng Yen,Hua-Fang Liao,Ing Jy Tseng +6 more
TL;DR: The predictive factor of not being in an ambulatory status is described, discusses and clarifies and the FUNDES-Adult could evaluate multifaceted disability and predict the walking status in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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Assessing cognitive-related disability in schizophrenia: Reliability, validity and underlying factors of the evaluation of cognitive processes involved in disability in schizophrenia scale.
TL;DR: The good psychometric properties of the scale suggest a role for this tool in assessing schizophrenia-related disability and evaluating the need for cognitive remediation in individuals with schizophrenia.
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The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection.
John E. Ware,Cathy D. Sherbourne +1 more
TL;DR: A 36-item short-form survey designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surveys to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study is constructed.
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A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: Construction of Scales and Preliminary Tests of Reliability and Validity
TL;DR: Twenty cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of empirical validity previously published for the 36-item short-form scales and summary measures were replicated for the 12-item Physical Component Summary and the12-item Mental Component Summary, including comparisons between patient groups known to differ or to change in terms of the presence and seriousness of physical and mental conditions.
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SF-36 health survey: Manual and interpretation guide
TL;DR: TheSF-36 is a generic health status measure which has gained popularity as a measure of outcome in a wide variety of patient groups and social and the contribution of baseline health, sociodemographic and work-related factors to the SF-36 Health Survey: manual and interpretation guide is tested.
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Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of test theory models and their application in the field of mental test analysis. But the focus of the survey is on test-score theories and models, and not the practical applications and limitations of each model studied.